shifted whichable function into the core, since it's useful.

need to seek out any users of bare which.

diff --git a/customizing/fred/java_profile.sh b/customizing/fred/java_profile.sh
index 7e0c1721faba1af18ea6a0925a2992b6f2f2e00f..f9268a015adb5b9de99591e41d5501452b784e16 100644 (file)
--- a/customizing/fred/java_profile.sh
+++ b/customizing/fred/java_profile.sh
@@ -6,16 +6,18 @@
 
 ############################
 
-function whichable()
-{
-  to_find="$1"; shift
-  which which &>/dev/null
-  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-    # there is no which command here.  we produce nothing due to this.
-    echo
-  fi
-  echo $(which $to_find)
-}
+source $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/core/functions.sh
+
+#function whichable()
+#{
+#  to_find="$1"; shift
+#  which which &>/dev/null
+#  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+#    # there is no which command here.  we produce nothing due to this.
+#    echo
+#  fi
+#  echo $(which $to_find)
+#}
 
 # this reports when we have totally failed to figure out where a folder
 # is actually located on the machine.

diff --git a/scripts/core/functions.sh b/scripts/core/functions.sh
index 924266dc781f911ae5ec5c7f382e955ae22f5176..88f3d315032f2283bc5d24108606fec98be8bcb3 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/core/functions.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/functions.sh
@@ -275,6 +275,20 @@ if [ -z "$skip_all" ]; then
     echo
   }
 
+  # a wrapper for the which command that finds items on the path.  some OSes
+  # do not provide which, so we want to not be spewing errors when that
+  # happens.
+  function whichable()
+  {
+    to_find="$1"; shift
+    which which &>/dev/null
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+      # there is no which command here.  we produce nothing due to this.
+      echo
+    fi
+    echo $(which $to_find)
+  }
+
   # copies a set of custom scripts into the proper location for feisty meow
   # to merge their functions and aliases with the standard set.
   function recustomize()