under bash which can be more or less replaced by type... otherwhise a for loop in the path could do the trick... something like (min you this is very ugly but uses only stuff in /bin): #!/bin/sh for i in $(echo $PATH | sed -e 's|:|\n|g'); do   [ -x "$i/$1" ] && exit 0; done exit 1 could work To sum up things: which is a pain to work without.. Till <div>On 8/30/05, Trent Lloyd <<a href="mailto:lathiat@bur.st">lathiat@bur.st</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:16:36PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi! > > I just tested usplash with the very latest packages. Works in > principle, but I get dropped out of the graphical mode back into plain > ol' 80x25 text mode very soon (amd64, Nvidia GeForce 5200). Is that a > known bug as well or do you need further information about it? I've had the same problem however I haven't tested with -6 yet. Cheers, Trent > > Martin > > -- > Martin Pitt        <a href="http://www.piware.de">http://www.piware.de</a> > Ubuntu Developer   <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">http://www.ubuntu.com </a> > Debian Developer   <a href="http://www.debian.org">http://www.debian.org</a> > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com </a> > <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a> -- Trent Lloyd <<a href="mailto:lathiat@bur.st">lathiat@bur.st</a>> <a href="http://Bur.st">Bur.st</a> Networking Inc. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>