package File::Which;
use 5.005003;
use strict;
use Exporter ();
use File::Spec ();
use vars qw{$VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK};
BEGIN {
$VERSION = '1.16';
@ISA = 'Exporter';
@EXPORT = 'which';
@EXPORT_OK = 'where';
}
use constant IS_VMS => ($^O eq 'VMS');
use constant IS_MAC => ($^O eq 'MacOS');
use constant IS_DOS => ($^O eq 'MSWin32' or $^O eq 'dos' or $^O eq 'os2');
use constant IS_CYG => ($^O eq 'cygwin');
# For Win32 systems, stores the extensions used for
# executable files
# For others, the empty string is used
# because 'perl' . '' eq 'perl' => easier
my @PATHEXT = ('');
if ( IS_DOS ) {
# WinNT. PATHEXT might be set on Cygwin, but not used.
if ( $ENV{PATHEXT} ) {
push @PATHEXT, split ';', $ENV{PATHEXT};
} else {
# Win9X or other: doesn't have PATHEXT, so needs hardcoded.
push @PATHEXT, qw{.com .exe .bat};
}
} elsif ( IS_VMS ) {
push @PATHEXT, qw{.exe .com};
} elsif ( IS_CYG ) {
# See this for more info
# http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-exe
push @PATHEXT, qw{.exe .com};
}
sub which {
my ($exec) = @_;
return undef unless $exec;
my $all = wantarray;
my @results = ();
# check for aliases first
if ( IS_VMS ) {
my $symbol = `SHOW SYMBOL $exec`;
chomp($symbol);
unless ( $? ) {
return $symbol unless $all;
push @results, $symbol;
}
}
if ( IS_MAC ) {
my @aliases = split /\,/, $ENV{Aliases};
foreach my $alias ( @aliases ) {
# This has not been tested!!
# PPT which says MPW-Perl cannot resolve `Alias $alias`,
# let's just hope it's fixed
if ( lc($alias) eq lc($exec) ) {
chomp(my $file = `Alias $alias`);
last unless $file; # if it failed, just go on the normal way
return $file unless $all;
push @results, $file;
# we can stop this loop as if it finds more aliases matching,
# it'll just be the same result anyway
last;
}
}
}
return $exec
if !IS_VMS and !IS_MAC and !IS_DOS and $exec =~ /\// and -f $exec and -x $exec;
my @path = File::Spec->path;
if ( IS_DOS or IS_VMS or IS_MAC ) {
unshift @path, File::Spec->curdir;
}
foreach my $base ( map { File::Spec->catfile($_, $exec) } @path ) {
for my $ext ( @PATHEXT ) {
my $file = $base.$ext;
# We don't want dirs (as they are -x)
next if -d $file;
if (
# Executable, normal case
-x _
or (
# MacOS doesn't mark as executable so we check -e
IS_MAC
||
(
( IS_DOS or IS_CYG )
and
grep {
$file =~ /$_\z/i
} @PATHEXT[1..$#PATHEXT]
)
# DOSish systems don't pass -x on
# non-exe/bat/com files. so we check -e.
# However, we don't want to pass -e on files
# that aren't in PATHEXT, like README.
and -e _
)
) {
return $file unless $all;
push @results, $file;
}
}
}
if ( $all ) {
return @results;
} else {
return undef;
}
}
sub where {
# force wantarray
my @res = which($_[0]);
return @res;
}
1;
__END__
=pod
=head1 NAME
File::Which - Portable implementation of the `which' utility
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use File::Which; # exports which()
use File::Which qw(which where); # exports which() and where()
my $exe_path = which('perldoc');
my @paths = where('perl');
- Or -
my @paths = which('perl'); # an array forces search for all of them
=head1 DESCRIPTION
C<File::Which> was created to be able to get the paths to executable programs
on systems under which the `which' program wasn't implemented in the shell.
C<File::Which> searches the directories of the user's C<PATH> (as returned by
C<File::Spec-E<gt>path()>), looking for executable files having the name
specified as a parameter to C<which()>. Under Win32 systems, which do not have a
notion of directly executable files, but uses special extensions such as C<.exe>
and C<.bat> to identify them, C<File::Which> takes extra steps to assure that
you will find the correct file (so for example, you might be searching for
C<perl>, it'll try F<perl.exe>, F<perl.bat>, etc.)
=head1 Steps Used on Win32, DOS, OS2 and VMS
=head2 Windows NT
Windows NT has a special environment variable called C<PATHEXT>, which is used
by the shell to look for executable files. Usually, it will contain a list in
the form C<.EXE;.BAT;.COM;.JS;.VBS> etc. If C<File::Which> finds such an
environment variable, it parses the list and uses it as the different
extensions.
=head2 Windows 9x and other ancient Win/DOS/OS2
This set of operating systems don't have the C<PATHEXT> variable, and usually
you will find executable files there with the extensions C<.exe>, C<.bat> and
(less likely) C<.com>. C<File::Which> uses this hardcoded list if it's running
under Win32 but does not find a C<PATHEXT> variable.
=head2 VMS
Same case as Windows 9x: uses C<.exe> and C<.com> (in that order).
=head1 Functions
=head2 which($short_exe_name)
Exported by default.
C<$short_exe_name> is the name used in the shell to call the program (for
example, C<perl>).
If it finds an executable with the name you specified, C<which()> will return
the absolute path leading to this executable (for example, F</usr/bin/perl> or
F<C:\Perl\Bin\perl.exe>).
If it does I<not> find the executable, it returns C<undef>.
If C<which()> is called in list context, it will return I<all> the
matches.
=head2 where($short_exe_name)
Not exported by default.
Same as C<which($short_exe_name)> in array context. Same as the
C<`where'> utility, will return an array containing all the path names
matching C<$short_exe_name>.
=head1 CAVEATS
Not tested on VMS or MacOS, although there is platform specific code
for those. Anyone who haves a second would be very kind to send me a
report of how it went.
=head1 SUPPORT
Bugs should be reported via the GitHub issue tracker
L<https://github.com/plicease/File-Which/issues>
For other issues, contact the maintainer.
=head1 SEE ALSO
=over 4
=item L<pwhich>
Command line interface to this module.
=item L<IPC::Cmd>
Comes with a C<can_run> function with slightly different semantics that
the traditional UNIX where. It will find executables in the current
directory, even though the current directory is not searched for by
default on Unix.
=item L<Devel::CheckBin>
This module purports to "check that a command is available", but does not
provide any documentation on how you might use it.
=back
=head1 AUTHOR
Current maintainer: Graham Ollis E<lt>plicease@cpan.orgE<gt>
Previous maintainer: Adam Kennedy E<lt>adamk@cpan.orgE<gt>
Original author: Per Einar Ellefsen E<lt>pereinar@cpan.orgE<gt>
Originated in F<modperl-2.0/lib/Apache/Build.pm>. Changed for use in DocSet
(for the mod_perl site) and Win32-awareness by me, with slight modifications
by Stas Bekman, then extracted to create C<File::Which>.
Version 0.04 had some significant platform-related changes, taken from
the Perl Power Tools C<`which'> implementation by Abigail with
enhancements from Peter Prymmer. See
L<http://www.perl.com/language/ppt/src/which/index.html> for more
information.
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2002 Per Einar Ellefsen.
Some parts copyright 2009 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<File::Spec>, L<which(1)>, Perl Power Tools:
L<http://www.perl.com/language/ppt/index.html>.
=cut