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Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-> wrote:
> [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to <>]

No thanks. This is usenet.


>> A quick way for a single command is:
>> foreach (split(/:/,$ENV{PATH})) { print "Found $_/rsh\n" if -x "$_/rsh" }

> Splitting PATH on /:/ is wrong. Use $Config{path_sep} instead.

I did say it was a quick way.

To anyone else reading this thread, don't forget you'll need "use Config"
to populate the %Config hash values.

Chris

Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
>
> <>], who wrote in article <5hngt2->:
>>Leon Nabot <nabotleon@hotmail_n0_spamz.com> wrote:
>>>I try to find a quick solution to find onto the PATH where is located an
>>>executable as "which" do.
>>>For the moment the only solution seems to write a module which browse
>>>each directory of the PATH searching the file.
>>A quick way for a single command is:
>>
>> foreach (split(/:/,$ENV{PATH})) { print "Found $_/rsh\n" if -x "$_/rsh" }
>
> Splitting PATH on /:/ is wrong. Use $Config{path_sep} instead.

Or:

use Env '@PATH';


John
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