For ash shell: functional "type -p"

[Denis Vlasenko]

Hi Mats.

[late reply. sorry...]

On Thursday 03 May 2007 12:44, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> I have been missing, inside ash, a short path response
> from the type builtin:
> 
> $ type -p tail
> /usr/bin/tail
> 
> The attached difference file ackomplishes this in a
> somewhat cheating manner, since it only detect whether
> the first argument of "type" begins with a dash, and then
> verbosity is switched off.

I'm file with this, as the code is smaller :)

> I might be prejudiced, but the ASH_CMDCMD conditionals
> inside typecmd() and describe_command() seem utterly
> pointless, so they are removed in order to implement
> this "short type" functionality.

Yes indeed.

Applied as rev 18654. Thanks Mats.
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