Re: A quick, stupid question.

[Greg Thomas <ethant@pacificnet.net>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, C. Bensend wrote:

> 
> 	I'm simply trying to check for the presence of an
> OpenBSD package - if it's installed, I need to skip the
> download/installation of that package.
> 
> I tried:
> 
> if [ -e `which wget` ]; then
> 	echo "wget already installed - skipping"
> fi
> 
> ... which works fine, IF the package is installed.  If it
> is not, it fails with (I'm just trying via commandline -
> I thought that if the package is NOT installed, it would
> simply output nothing):
> 
> [: too many arguments
> 
> 	What is the flaw in my logic?

In OpenBSD if the executable doesn't exist which will tell you that, hence
the "too many arguments".

$ which blah
blah: Command not found.

Greg