checking out convert option available for ubuntu

Question

I need to check out whether my linux system installation have "convert" command available. Is there a command to control this situation?

Maybe you can look at this forum thread
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/592620/check-if-a-program-exists-from-a-bash-script — Anders, May 30 '15 at 18:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '15 at 18:51

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To determine if a command is available

which <command>

In your case

which convert

Or use locate

sudo updatedb #necessary if you recently installed
locate convert

convert is a part of imagemagick , so to install

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

answered May 30 '15 at 18:51

Panther

which is not a good solution.. – heemayl May 30 '15 at 19:00
@heemayl - why not ? convert is a bit strange as it is a part of imagemagik – Panther May 30 '15 at 19:04
at the very least level, why would you fork an external process that type or hash can do easily....the link has farther explanations.... – heemayl May 30 '15 at 19:07
@heemayl - that link seems a little off topic to say the least (running which in scripts), not to mention somewhat opinionated and even inaccurate. With modern computers launching a separate process is rather trivial (0.012 seconds, really ?) and which does set an exit status. – Panther May 30 '15 at 19:30

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