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 $exe_path = which('perldoc'); my @paths = where('perl'); - Or - my @paths = which('perl'); # an array forces search for all of them =head1 DESCRIPTION C was created to be able to get the paths to executable programs on systems under which the `which' program wasn't implemented in the shell. C searches the directories of the user's C (as returned by Cpath()>), looking for executable files having the name specified as a parameter to C. Under Win32 systems, which do not have a notion of directly executable files, but uses special extensions such as C<.exe> and C<.bat> to identify them, C takes extra steps to assure that you will find the correct file (so for example, you might be searching for C, it'll try F, F, etc.) =head1 Steps Used on Win32, DOS, OS2 and VMS =head2 Windows NT Windows NT has a special environment variable called C, which is used by the shell to look for executable files. Usually, it will contain a list in the form C<.EXE;.BAT;.COM;.JS;.VBS> etc. If C finds such an environment variable, it parses the list and uses it as the different extensions. =head2 Windows 9x and other ancient Win/DOS/OS2 This set of operating systems don't have the C variable, and usually you will find executable files there with the extensions C<.exe>, C<.bat> and (less likely) C<.com>. C uses this hardcoded list if it's running under Win32 but does not find a C variable. =head2 VMS Same case as Windows 9x: uses C<.exe> and C<.com> (in that order). =head1 Functions =head2 which($short_exe_name) Exported by default. C<$short_exe_name> is the name used in the shell to call the program (for example, C). If it finds an executable with the name you specified, C will return the absolute path leading to this executable (for example, F or F). If it does I find the executable, it returns C. If C is called in list context, it will return I the matches. =head2 where($short_exe_name) Not exported by default. Same as C 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 For other issues, contact the maintainer. =head1 SEE ALSO =over 4 =item L Command line interface to this module. =item L Comes with a C 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 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 Eplicease@cpan.orgE Previous maintainer: Adam Kennedy Eadamk@cpan.orgE Original author: Per Einar Ellefsen Epereinar@cpan.orgE Originated in F. 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. 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 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, L, Perl Power Tools: L. =cut