Adam Di Carlo wrote: > This is irrelevant to you original question, but I really prefer to > use the POSIX 'command' command in order to determine whether an > executable exists on the path. I feel it is problematic to hard-code > paths into scripts, and any way to avoid that is a good thing. > > if command -v update-menus >/dev/null 2>&1; > then > update-menus > fi > > I'm CC'ing the debhelper maintainer to see what he thinks, since he says: > > if [ -x /usr/bin/update-menus ] ; then update-menus ; fi
In fact, I just ran into the 'command' idiom when I was adding doc-base support to debhelper today. Debhelper now uses it for update-menus as well. (BTW, it's [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- see shy jo
