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

[John Reagan]

"Kenneth Fairfield" <ken.fairfield at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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

Well, not the bash on my ubuntu 11.10 system.

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
$ alias ll
alias ll='ls -alF'
$ which ll
$

John