#!/bin/sh #inpath - Verifies that a specified program is either valid as is, #or that it can be found in the PATH dir list. in_path() { cmd=$1 path=$2 retval=1 oldFS=$LFS LFS=":" for directory in $path do if[ -x $directory/$cmd ]:then retval=0 #if were here, we found $cmd $dir fl done LFS=$oldLFS return $retval } checkForCmdLnPath() { var=$1 if["$var"!=""]:then if["${var%${var#?}}"="/"]:then if[!-x $var]:then return 1 fl eLif ! in_path $var $PATH:then return 2 fl fl } if[$#-ne 1]: then echo "Usage: $0 command" >&2 ; exit 1 fl checkForCmdLnPath "$1" case $? in 0) echo "$2 found in PATH" ;; 1) echo "$1 not found or not executable" ;; 2) echo "$1 not found in PATH" ;; esac exit 0