findexec

A go library to find paths of executables

• Usage
• License
• Credits

Usage

package main
import "github.com/jonhadfield/findexec"
func main() {
    // find an executable called "diff" without specifying paths which will force
    // searching of the system paths found in environment variable 'PATH'
    _ = findexec.Find("diff", "")
    // find an executable called "bash" in specific paths
    _ = findexec.Find("bash", "/home/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin")
}

License

The source code is made available under the terms of the Unlicense License, as stated in the file LICENSE.

Credits

This is rewrite of the find_executable() function provided in the python 2 standard library.