pathsearch

A script to search for a file in a list of directories.

Install

You can install this script from PyPi with your favorite package manager. For example: :

pip install pathsearch
poetry add pathsearch

Or you can install it from source:

# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mrlegohead0x45/pathsearch/
# or if you have github cli
gh repo clone mrlegohead0x45/pathsearch

cd pathsearch

# install the package
pip install -e .
# or you can just run it directly
python pathsearch.py

Usage

$ pathsearch -h
usage: pathsearch [-h] [-V] [-pe] [-v | -q] (-p PATH | -e VAR) file

Search for a file in a list of directories

positional arguments:
file                  File to search for on the specified path

options:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-V, --version         show program's version number and exit
-pe, --pathext        Look for file with extensions in environment variable PATHEXT (normally only set on Windows) (default: False)
-v, --verbose         Be verbose
-q, --quiet           Be quiet (only print found files)
-p PATH, --path PATH  Literal path to look in (e.g. /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin)
-e VAR, --env VAR     Environment variable to take path to search from (e.g. PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

Copyright (c) 2022 mrlegohead0x45. Licensed under the MIT License, which can be found in the source code of this program, or online at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT. This program can be found online at
https://github.com/mrlegohead0x45/pathsearch and https://pypi.org/project/pathsearch/

You can specify a literal path to look in with the -p or --path option. Or, you can specify an environment variable to take the path from with the -e or --env option. The -pe or --pathext option is generally only useful on Windows, and will look for files with extensions in the PATHEXT environment variable, for example, pathsearch -pe -e PATH cmd will look for cmd.exe, cmd.bat, cmd.com etc. in the path. See https://superuser.com/questions/1027078/what-is-the-default-value-of-the-pathext-environment-variable-for-windows for more information.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license, the text of which is available at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT and in the LICENSE file.