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hoshang82 / validate.sh
Created April 9, 2018 10:08 — forked from hrwgc/validate.sh
bash wget - check if file exists at url before downloading
#!/bin/bash
# simple function to check http response code before downloading a remote file
# example usage:
# if `validate_url $url >/dev/null`; then dosomething; else echo "does not exist"; fi
function validate_url(){
if [[ `wget -S --spider $1 2>&1 | grep 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK'` ]]; then echo "true"; fi
}
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hoshang82 / is_installed.sh
Created April 9, 2018 07:31 — forked from JamieMason/is_installed.sh
Check if a program exists from a bash script.Thanks to twitter.com/joshnesbitt and twitter.com/mheap for the help with detecting npm packages.
#!/bin/bash
# Functions ==============================================
# return 1 if global command line program installed, else 0
# example
# echo "node: $(program_is_installed node)"
function program_is_installed {
# set to 1 initially
local return_=1
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hoshang82 / is_installed.sh
Created April 9, 2018 07:31 — forked from JamieMason/is_installed.sh
Check if a program exists from a bash script.Thanks to twitter.com/joshnesbitt and twitter.com/mheap for the help with detecting npm packages.
#!/bin/bash
# Functions ==============================================
# return 1 if global command line program installed, else 0
# example
# echo "node: $(program_is_installed node)"
function program_is_installed {
# set to 1 initially
local return_=1