Re: How to detect CygWin SVN?

[Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedmann@gmail.com>]

Preferrably cmd

Or, in the alternative, the output of a cmd-Shell invocation to be
analyzed by some Java program.


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 02:22 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm assuming that your script expects svn to be in the PATH, so you
>>> could check to see if the path to the svn client lives within Cygwin's
>>> installation:
>>>
>>> if [ $(type -p svn) = '/usr/bin/svn' ]; then
>>>  echo "Found Cygwin's svn client"
>>> fi
>>>
>>> Unless someone goes out of their way to confound things, this should be
>>> good enough.
>>
>> Thanks for the idea. However, I'd prefer a solution that works with
>> the native cmd-Shell too. Otherwise, I'd assume that CygWin is
>> installed.
>
> Since you want a solution that works in either environment, in what
> language are you going to implement your script?  You can do something
> very similar in Perl and other such languages, but I can't think of a
> single method that would work in both bash and cmd without at least some
> syntax tweaks.
>
> -Jeremy
>
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