From 3d5b16f470105b91bac350934155444aa13902e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thilo Six <tech@xk2c.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 09:50:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Rewrite check4progs from etc/grml/script-functions

This largely simplifies the function and also fixes its behaviour when
called with more than one argument.

Signed-off-by: Frank Terbeck <ft@grml.org>
---
 etc/grml/script-functions | 28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/grml/script-functions b/etc/grml/script-functions
index a39e3d8..887cf2c 100644
--- a/etc/grml/script-functions
+++ b/etc/grml/script-functions
@@ -48,15 +48,25 @@ setdialog(){
 # }}}
 
 # {{{ check for availability of program(s)
-check4progs(){
-  local RC=''
-  for arg in $* ; do
-    which $arg >/dev/null 2>&1 || RC="$arg"
-  done
-  if [ -n "$RC" ] ; then
-     echo "$RC not installed"
-     return 1
-  fi
+check4progs() {
+    local RTN=0
+    local ARG=''
+    while [ ${#} -gt 0 ]
+    do
+        ARG="${1}"
+        shift
+
+        # check for availability
+        if ! \which "${ARG}" >/dev/null 2>&1
+        then
+            printf "%s: binary not found\n" "${ARG}" >&2
+            RTN=1
+        fi
+
+    done
+
+    # return non zero, if at least one prog is missing!
+    return ${RTN}
 }
 # }}}
 
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2.1.4