Bug 1194044 - which fails to find matching bash functions
Summary: which fails to find matching bash functions
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: which
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 819602 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-18 20:30 UTC by Scott Shambarger
Modified: 2015-11-11 17:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-11-11 17:10:48 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Adjust /etc/profile.d/which2.sh as manpage recommends (1.40 KB, patch)
2015-02-18 20:30 UTC, Scott Shambarger
no flags Details | Diff

Description Scott Shambarger 2015-02-18 20:30:54 UTC
Created attachment 993306 [details]
Adjust /etc/profile.d/which2.sh as manpage recommends

Description of problem:
The which alias declared in /etc/profile.d/which2.sh fails to find bash functions which would be used to resolve a particular command.  So for example, if a function for ls is declared, "which ls" shows /bin/ls when in fact the function named "ls" is actually used.

This is a continuation of bug 819602 (which was closed as EOL)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.20-8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Declare a bash function mytest, eg "mytest() { echo "hello"; }"
2. Type "mytest" at prompt, which executes function (results in "hello")
3. Type "which mytest"

Actual results:

/usr/bin/which: no mytest in ($PATH)

Expected results:

mytest ()                                                                       
{                                                                               
    echo "hello"                                                                
}                                                                               


Additional info:
The attached patch to fix the problem is described in the which manpage, and is therefore a preferred and supported way to have which work with bash functions.

Comment 1 Till Maas 2015-02-18 20:38:58 UTC
*** Bug 819602 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Till Maas 2015-02-18 20:44:35 UTC
@Ngo Than: It is now 2.5 years without any answer from you, I will now update which for you

Also please respond, since I now also start the nonresponsive maintainer policy:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers

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Comment 4 Scott Shambarger 2015-11-11 17:10:48 UTC
Bug appears fixed in which-2.20-9 (yay!...only F22 onwards though)
Tested and works perfectly.
Moving to F22 and closing.


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