On 13/10/26 at 20:06, nwe wrote:
On 10/13/26 12:54 PM, Franco Martelli wrote:
both commands do the same thing. Which ones is it better to propose to
an end user? For others nice examples please see "man pv".
nwe@debian13:~$ man pv
No manual entry for pv
nwe@debian13:~$ sudo pv
sudo: pv: command not found
dd never did that to me...
Maybe just a matter of preference. I like to depend on utilities that
are already installed.
OK those are your preferences, however don't blindly run a program with
"sudo" to verify that exist, this is a bad habit, you can:
1. use "which" to see whether a command is in the $PATH (recommended)
~$ sudo which bogus
(no output)
~$ sudo which pv
/usr/bin/pv
2. check if the command is installed:
~$ dpkg --search *bogus
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern *bogus
~$ dpkg --search *pv
pv: /usr/bin/pv
pv: /usr/share/doc/pv
bash-completion: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pv
3. if you really, really want to run the command, at least take the
habit to run it with a switch such as "--help" or "--version". But this
is deprecable however.
Kind regards,
--
Franco Martelli
