Revisions to Fish shell testing for existence of file in $PATH

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edited Sep 15, 2016 at 16:17

Use type in fish like in Bourne-like shell:

if type -q figlet hostname | figlet end

Or to limit to executables in $PATH (ignoring functions, builtins):

if command -s figlet ^> /dev/null hostname | figlet end

Use type in fish like in Bourne-like shell:

if type -q figlet hostname | figlet end

Or to limit to executables in $PATH (ignoring functions, builtins):

if command -s figlet ^ /dev/null hostname | figlet end

Use type in fish like in Bourne-like shell:

if type -q figlet hostname | figlet end

Or to limit to executables in $PATH (ignoring functions, builtins):

if command -s figlet > /dev/null hostname | figlet end

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edited Sep 15, 2016 at 7:21

Use type in fish like in Bourne-like shell:

if type -q figlet hostname | figlet end

Or to limit to executables in $PATH (ignoring functions, builtins):

if command -s figlet ^ /dev/null hostname | figleyfiglet end

Use type in fish like in Bourne-like shell:

if type -q figlet hostname | figlet end

Or to limit to executables in $PATH (ignoring functions, builtins):

if command -s figlet ^ /dev/null hostname | figley end

Use type in fish like in Bourne-like shell:

if type -q figlet hostname | figlet end

Or to limit to executables in $PATH (ignoring functions, builtins):

if command -s figlet ^ /dev/null hostname | figlet end

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edited Sep 14, 2016 at 21:50

Use type in fish like in Bourne-like shell:

if type -q figlet hostname | figlet end

Or to limit to executables in $PATH (ignoring functions, builtins):

if command -s figlet ^ /dev/null hostname | figley end

Use type in fish like in Bourne-like shell:

if type -q figlet hostname | figlet end

Use type in fish like in Bourne-like shell:

if type -q figlet hostname | figlet end

Or to limit to executables in $PATH (ignoring functions, builtins):

if command -s figlet ^ /dev/null hostname | figley end

answered Sep 14, 2016 at 21:45

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