On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Eric Wong <e...@80x24.org> wrote: > Also, my use of a numeric comparison may be more future-proof > in case FreeBSD decides to have /usr/bin/perl again. > > I also wonder why we don't use `which` to search for somewhat > standard path components, instead. Something like:
Because historically output from "which" was not meant to be machine parseable (some implementation said 'perl is /usr/bin/perl') -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
