Re: Checking whether program foo supports option --bar

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Hi Sebasien,

On 2/3/22 04:23, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 3/1/22 09:08, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
Is there a conventional / recommended way to test whether a program
supports a given command-line option?

You can use either AS_IF or plain sh 'if', depending on how complicated the then- and else- parts are.


You might find the macro YAT_RUN_LOG useful, which is a wrapper around AS_IF with some extra stuff like redirecting stderr to the log etc.


https://dev.thep.lu.se/yat/svn/trunk/m4/yat_common.m4


Peter





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