On 22 Jan 2004 13:06:35 +0000 "Neil Bothwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Barry Marler said, > > >> What is the quickest (or preferred) way of checking (in a > >> bash script) if a given package is installed? > > > 2. qpkg -I <package name> > > qpkg returns zero whether the package is installed or not. > > You could use something like > > if [ `qpkg -I packagename | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then > echo "installed" > else > echo "not installed" > fi I assumed the original poster, having expressed a desire for a bash script, needed only the tool to return installed packages, which could be used as per your example. -- Barry Marler Information Analyst II Center for Applied Genetic Technologies University of Georgia Athens, GA USA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
