[Gllug] Detect if a program is available

[Ian Norton-Badrul]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:17:08PM +0100, Tom Weissmann wrote:
> Is there a way to check that a program / executable is available, 
> without running it or using whereis or which?

you could probably do this with a short shell script,

eg 

if [ test -x /bin/foo ]
then
bar
fi

Ian

> I have an Emacs function that depends on Cygwin netcat being installed, 
> and I'd like to it to check.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Tom SW
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