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Forum: UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers 10-26-2019

Bash find version of an installed application but if none is found set variable to App Not Installed

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Thanks Again RudiC for your help. I'll now be...

Thanks Again RudiC for your help. I'll now be able to use the 2>/dev/null || echo "not installed" in future one line command scripts.

Your solution worked perfectly! :b:

Forum: UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers 10-26-2019

Bash find version of an installed application but if none is found set variable to App Not Installed

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Bash find version of an installed application but if none is found set variable to App Not Installed

Hello Forum,

I'm issuing a one line bash command to look for the version of an installed application and saving the result to a variable like so:

APP=application --version

But if the...

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