Re: feature-request: brief syntax for $(type -p somecommand)

[Mike Coleman]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj@freeshell.org> wrote:
>   If that's what you want, you can include it in the function:
>
> p()
> {
>  _p=$( type -p "$@" )
>  [ -n "$_p" ] && ls -l $_p
> }

This is more or less what I'm doing now, with one function for each
command.  I suppose the command could be an argument, too, so that one
could run

    $ p ls somecommand
    $ p ldd somecommand
    $ p strings somecommand
    $ p file somecommand
    $ p nm somecommand

though there's no command completion this way.  I guess I could add that, too.

One problem, though, like the "wait for slot" feature I suggested a
few months ago, is that something like this is quite a bit more useful
when it's available everywhere (without having to drag one's bash
library around).

Mike