Check if a program exists in bash
- by ~rojanu
I am trying to check if md5sum or digest exists on solaris and script is used on different machines.
Here is the function in sh script which is called from a ksh script
getMD5cmd ()
{
PATH="${PATH}:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin/bin"
if type -p md5sum;then
MD5CMD=`type -p md5sum`
elif type -p digest;then
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