How to get the pathname of the current executable?

[Richard Tobin]

In article <5378 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> someone please tell me why which(1) reads the .cshrc...

If you're asking "why does which(1) assume I use csh", then:

Different shells potentially interpret commands in completely different
ways.  A command like which *has* to depend on your shell.  It seems clear
to me that which should be built-in to csh and sh - that way it would
always be right.

-- Richard
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