Re: [rox-devel] ANNOUNCE: ROX-Wrap Zero-Install

[Rds <rd...@rd...>]

On Sun, 9 May 2004 16:04:19 +1000 (EST)
Tristan Mc Leay <ke...@ya...> wrote:
> Indeed, but it doesn't say _why_ the first failed. If
> it failed because the program didn't work, that's
> different from failing because the program isn't
> installed, but || doesn't know about that (|| runs the
> next statement iff it received a non-zero exit status;
> both 'blah || echo frog' and 'mv || echo frog' will
> echo frog assuming 'blah' isn't a valid command).

To check if it's installed, why not do a `which $APP_NAME`, and see if
the returned 'path' exists? If so, you can assume it's installed, and
that a failed || means error.

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