[Info-vax] Foreign commands ... newbie question

[Kenneth Fairfield]

On Monday, October 17, 2011 11:19:05 AM UTC-7, John Reagan wrote:
> "Bob Koehler" <koe... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
> news:8rOkQcFmJClX at eisner.encompasserve.org...
> > In article 
> > <3b23d42c-2182-4e58... at r1g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Steven 
> > Schweda <sms.an... at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> (I don't even know
> >> how to do a "which xxx" on VMS.  Is there a way?
> >
> >   $ dir dcl$path:xxx.com,.exe
> >
> >   Some UNIX "which" will only search PATH.  Some will also search
> >   aliases.  If you want the latter, you'll need to use both the
> >   directory command and a show symbol command.
> >
> 
> Which UNIX's 'which' looks at aliases?  I've never seen one of those.

Also, the one in bash:

14:42:54 # which ls
alias ls='ls -vxp --color'
        /bin/ls


    -Ken