Add `which`

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, operating-systems

Research direction

No source file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating the entry points for existing command implementations and their CLI tests, then review how platform command paths are resolved. Done means a usable which command is added without incorporating the cited GPL-licensed implementations, following the repository's existing conventions.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

  • where: Where-Object in PowerShell
  • Get-Command/gcm: You have to use (gcm COMMAND).path to get the path string, which is too verbose

Ubuntu package: debianutils (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils) LICENSE
RHEL package: which (https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/which/)
GNUWin32: https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/which.htm

Unfortunately all of them are licensed under GPL. No MIT alternatives, even in https://github.com/uutils/.

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