SHTOOL-PATH.TMP

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NAME

shtool-path - GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables

SYNOPSIS

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: Supress 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.

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