Check if a program exists from a bash script.Thanks to twitter.com/joshnesbitt and twitter.com/mheap for the help with detecting npm packages.

is_installed.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Functions ==============================================

# return 1 if global command line program installed, else 0
# example
# echo "node: $(program_is_installed node)"
function program_is_installed {
  # set to 1 initially
  local return_=1
  # set to 0 if not found
  type $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || { local return_=0; }
  # return value
  echo "$return_"
}

# return 1 if local npm package is installed at ./node_modules, else 0
# example
# echo "gruntacular : $(npm_package_is_installed gruntacular)"
function npm_package_is_installed {
  # set to 1 initially
  local return_=1
  # set to 0 if not found
  ls node_modules | grep $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || { local return_=0; }
  # return value
  echo "$return_"
}

# display a message in red with a cross by it
# example
# echo echo_fail "No"
function echo_fail {
  # echo first argument in red
  printf "\e[31m✘ ${1}"
  # reset colours back to normal
  printf "\033\e[0m"
}

# display a message in green with a tick by it
# example
# echo echo_fail "Yes"
function echo_pass {
  # echo first argument in green
  printf "\e[32m✔ ${1}"
  # reset colours back to normal
  printf "\033\e[0m"
}

# echo pass or fail
# example
# echo echo_if 1 "Passed"
# echo echo_if 0 "Failed"
function echo_if {
  if [ $1 == 1 ]; then
    echo_pass $2
  else
    echo_fail $2
  fi
}

# ============================================== Functions

# command line programs
echo "node    $(echo_if $(program_is_installed node))"
echo "gulp    $(echo_if $(program_is_installed gulp))"
echo "webpack $(echo_if $(program_is_installed webpack))"
echo "eslint  $(echo_if $(program_is_installed eslint))"
echo "tsc     $(echo_if $(program_is_installed tsc))"
echo "brew    $(echo_if $(program_is_installed brew))"
echo "gem     $(echo_if $(program_is_installed gem))"

# local npm packages
echo "lodash  $(echo_if $(npm_package_is_installed lodash))"
echo "react   $(echo_if $(npm_package_is_installed react))"
echo "angular $(echo_if $(npm_package_is_installed angular))"

Hello, when I run this I just get "nodejs ? \033[0m" and then everything just stays green no matter what.

**Edit - made a few adjustments, but still I only now get a green question mark no matter what the npm package I try and use.

http://i.imgur.com/AkZY2GF.png

http://i.imgur.com/weCQ4tx.png

The first one was with nodejs actually installed and checking for that, I change the name to nodej2s because it was not a real thing and got the same outcome.

@FliiFe feel free to use this without restriction.

Love this!

@MostHated Change 2 lines in the script.
Both occurrencies (there's two of them) of these:
echo "\033[0m"
=>
printf "\033\e[0m"

thanks @jpaulin, I'll update

great work, thank you so much :-)do you know maybe whe I get the "sign" beside the green/red sign ?
printf "\e[32m✔ ${1}" , ${1} <- what does this variable ?
the sign is comming from reset to normal colours: printf "\033\e[0m"

Ubuntu 16.04

@hoshang82 I got this too. I Added this function and swapped the color and color reset codes to use the color variables provided by the fuction and it now works.

function loadcolor(){
# Colors  http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/snipplets/add_color_to_your_scripts
# More info about colors in bash http://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colors_and_formatting
esc_seq="\x1b["  #In Bash, the <Esc> character can be obtained with the following syntaxes:  \e  \033  \x1B
NC=$esc_seq"39;49;00m" # NC = Normal Color
red=$esc_seq"31;01m"
green=$esc_seq"32;00m"
yellow=$esc_seq"33;01m"
blue=$esc_seq"34;01m"
magenta=$esc_seq"35;01m"
cyan=$esc_seq"36;01m"
}

I have modified the function a bit to use inside if conditions efficiently:

function program_doesnt_exist {
  local return_=1
  type $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || { local return_=0; }
  # return $return_ instead of printing
  return $return_
}

# install nodejs
if program_doesnt_exist node; then
  curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | sudo -E bash -
  sudo apt install -y nodejs
fi

# install certbot
if program_doesnt_exist certbot; then
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot -y
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install -y python-certbot-nginx
fi

Maybe you can write the functions a little more compact. For example, the code snippet for program_is_installed:

program_is_installed(){
	type $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "1" || echo "0"
}