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Re: How to test a object name is an executable ?
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Leonid Isaev |
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Re: How to test a object name is an executable ? |
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Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:50:04 +0000 |
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 05:27:38PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> If you don't know where in the system the executable in question is, you
> could run which in order to search the PATH to find out:
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> $ [[ -x $(which ls) ]] && echo YES
type is better here (no need to exec an external command):
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if [[ -x "$(type -fP ls)" ]]; then
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fi
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HTH,
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Leonid Isaev