Where is "shortp" located.

[Raynald Boucher]

Hello all,
I have a process "shortp" on my system that I can use from everywhere.

My question is: Where is it?

"which" doesn't show it. Nor does "man -k".
"alias" returns "shortp=_ShPS_".
So where can I find the source for this process?

RayB

[Torsten.]

The answer might be in your question already ... try "whereis" and "find", but not with the alias.

[Raynald Boucher]

Here are the results.

# whereis _ShPS_
_ShPS_:
# find / -local -name _ShPS_
find: cannot search /mnt/tyche/dev_backup
#

RayB

[Mike Miller_8]

Try :

find / -follow -name "_ShPS_" -print

[Dennis Handly]

>that I can use from everywhere.

If you can execute that from every user, you should be able to use "whence -v _ShPS_" to get its path.

[Raynald Boucher]

results:

$ whence -v _ShPS_
_ShPS_ is a function
$

"man -k function" returns 1000 lines...
I'm still stuck.

RayB

[Dennis Handly]

>_ShPS_ is a function

Scan your .profile and any other files that are sourced for your shell function.
I assume you aren't using FPATH?

[Mike Miller_8]

Dennis is right - look in your .profile, .kshrc, etc for a script that defines a function and exports it.

File name is 'func1':
junk()
{
ls -l func1
}
export junk
junk
whence -v junk

[Viktor Balogh]

Hi Raynald,

If you are using ksh try the "functions" command to list the defined functions. It might be defined from your .profile file.

[Vipin Kumar]

Hi Ray,

Can u check the same with ptree command.
ptree

Vipin