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by capableweb 1695 days ago
Or, add a new standard describing the wanted behavior from `which` which everyone is already using, but put it under a new binary name. If it's supposed to show the path for the thing passed in, maybe `where` would make sense.
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They did do that. It's "command -v".
A standards descriptivist is unlikely to agree with "make a new standard so everybody has to change their behaviour"