Man page - shtool-path(1)
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Manual
SHTOOL-PATH.TMP
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLE
HISTORY
SEE ALSO
NAME
shtool-path - GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables
SYNOPSIS
shtool path [ -s | --suppress ] [ -r | --reverse ] [ -d | --dirname ] [ -b | --basename ] [ -m | --magic ] [ -p | --path path ] str [ str ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments. It prints the absolute filesystem path to the program displayed on "stdout" plus an exit code of 0 if it was really found.
OPTIONS
The following
command line options are available.
-s
,
--suppress
Suppress output. Useful to only test whether a program exists with the help of the return code.
-r , --reverse
Transform a forward path to a subdirectory into a reverse path.
-d , --dirname
Output the directory name of str .
-b , --basename
Output the base name of str .
-m , --magic
Enable advanced magic search for ""perl"" and ""cpp"".
-p , --path path
Search in path . Default is to search in $PATH.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
awk=`shtool path -p "${PATH}:." gawk nawk awk`
perl=`shtool path -m perl`
cpp=`shtool path -m cpp`
revpath=`shtool path -r path/to/subdir`
HISTORY
The GNU shtool path command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Apache . It was later taken over into GNU shtool .
SEE ALSO
shtool (1), which (1).