Re: Checking whether program foo supports option --bar

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hello,

Peter Johansson (2022/03/02 09:13 +1000):
> 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.

It turned out the implementation was simpler than I thought! It does not
happen that often.

But many thanks for the reposnse and link!

Best wishes,

Sébastien.