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Re: test for existance of external program

2005-04-13 16:50:18
I know, and Ruud said that also, but really, back here on Planet
Earth, how many people really have spaces in their *nix paths
to standard binaries?

True, but call it a good habit to have. There's an enormous amount of
bad software around which barfs at the first space, or has similarly
related quoting issues.

    * ? test -c 'type "$PROG"'

I have no idea what the -c is you're using.

Ooops sorry, should have been   * ? sh -c 

Volker

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