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Re: system-command-exists-p


From: Andreas Politz
Subject: Re: system-command-exists-p
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:22:29 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:

> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
>> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>>> Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> needed a check if a command exists on system.
>>>> Employed the following:
>>>>
>>>> (defun system-command-exists-p (command)
>>>>   "Return t if COMMAND is available on system. "
>>>>   (let* ((cmd (format "type %s" command)))
>>>>     (eq 0 (shell-command cmd))))
>>>>
>>>> Any comments/suggestions?
>>> 

`executable-find' ?

-ap





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