Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This would be better expressed as > > if type -p invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then > ... > > This latter form will detect accurately whether invoke-rc.d is > available _on the current PATH_ as set by the sysadmin, and will > therefore allow somewhat greater flexibility to admins (eg, to install > invoke-rc.d separately in /usr/local before upgrading).
You'd better make that simply "type" so that it will work with POSIX shells other than bash. Besides, there is no reason to rule out aliases/functions/builtins since when invoke-rc.d is actually run those things will all be considered by the shell. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
