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passed as an argument. It returns true (zero) if the command was
found, and false if not. This is really the most portable way, since
<tt>command -v</tt>, <prgn>type</prgn>, and <prgn>which</prgn> are not
-POSIX. While <prgn>which</prgn> is an acceptable alternative, since
+POSIX.
+ <p>
+While <prgn>which</prgn> is an acceptable alternative, since
it is from the required <package>debianutils</package> package, it's
-not on the root partition, although that is probably not something
-that will cause a problem.
+not on the root partition. That is, it's in <file>/usr/bin</file> rather
+than <file>/bin</file>, so one can't use it in scripts which are run
+before the <file>/usr</file> partition is mounted. Most scripts won't have
+this problem, though.
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