From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: system-command-exists-p
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:22:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljhewy7u.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vdgiew67.fsf@galatea.local
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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[not found] <mailman.12411.1260170302.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-07 10:13 ` system-command-exists-p Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-07 12:02 ` system-command-exists-p Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.12419.1260187409.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-07 13:44 ` system-command-exists-p Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-07 16:22 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2009-12-07 16:00 ` system-command-exists-p Stefan Monnier
2009-12-07 18:57 ` system-command-exists-p Andreas Röhler
2009-12-07 7:17 system-command-exists-p Andreas Roehler
2009-12-07 16:30 ` system-command-exists-p Lennart Borgman
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