PowerShell: Check whether a Windows command or executable is available

In one of my recent PowerShell scripts I needed to find out if certain commands (in my case “svn”, “git”, “ant” and “mvn”) were available or not. I wrote this small function that tries to call the given command and returns whether it is callable.

function commandAvailable($cmd, $options) { $error.clear(); $ErrorActionPreference = "silentlycontinue"; & $cmd $options | out-null; $ErrorActionPreference = "stop"; if ($error[0]) { write-host ("Command " + $cmd + " " + $options + " is not available") -foregroundcolor "red"; return $false; } return $true; } write-host (commandAvailable "svn" "--version");

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Polyglot Clean Code Developer

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