How to check if a program is available

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Last Updated: 2024-11-21

Use command -v in an if statement

#!/usr/bin/env bash
if command -v rg; then
  rg ...
else
  echo "Dependencies: ripgrep missing"
  echo "(on macos): brew install ripgrep"
fi