Lately i’ve had to work with a new operating system (apple) and it’s built in shell is ZSH.
With that i’ve had to understand how to parse strings in it compared to KSH and Bash. One interesting thing I found is that that the standard $PATH variable in zsh is already split into an array for you in this variable $path. So to test and see if something is in your path like BASH you can simply use that variable to your advantage like this:
getBashVersion()
{
for p in $path;do
b="$p/bash"
if [[ -f "$b" ]]; then
echo "_____$(echo $p)______"
$b --version | grep version
echo "_____________"
else
echo "no bash found in $p"
fi
done
}
Once you’ve sourced this in your profile you can run like this:
> getBashVersion
no bash found in /Users/username/py3/bin
_____/usr/local/bin______
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin21.1.0)
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
_____________
no bash found in /usr/bin
_____/bin______
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin21)
_____________
no bash found in /usr/sbin
no bash found in /sbin
no bash found in /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin
no bash found in /Users/username/src/Python/environments/ekp-regress/bin
no bash found in /Users/username/.cargo/bin
no bash found in /Users/username/.cargo/bin
Hopefully this helps someone
Until then keep scripting
thom
ScriptPosse 