Allow testing for an executable on the users's PATH
skx opened this issue · comments
Steve Kemp commented
Looking at #72 I see the following code:
let download="/usr/bin/curl" if exists(/usr/bin/curl)
let download="/usr/bin/wget" if exists(/usr/bin/wget)
This is obviously not portable (to windows), but the intent is merely to allow:
shell{ command => "${download} ..
So the key result should be that we can find a binary named curl
or wget
on the path. We don't need to consider the specific path. So we should instead write:
let download="curl" if on_path(curl)
let download="wget" if on_path(wget)
i.e. A new conditional that returns "true" if the named binary is somewhere on the users' path. It will take care of windows with .exe/.com/.bat suffixes too.