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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Checking whether program is installed Post 302293709 by cfajohnson on Tuesday 3rd of March 2009 04:41:08 PM
Old 03-03-2009

Code:
if type sqlite3 >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
        echo "sqlite already installed"
else 
        cd /usr/ports/databases/sqlite3 && make install clean
fi

Or:

Code:
if command -v sqlite3 >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
        echo "sqlite already installed"
else 
        cd /usr/ports/databases/sqlite3 && make install clean
fi

 

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