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- package File::Which;
-
- use 5.004;
- use strict;
- use Exporter ();
- use File::Spec ();
-
- use vars qw{$VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK};
- BEGIN {
- $VERSION = '1.08';
- @ISA = 'Exporter';
- @EXPORT = 'which';
- @EXPORT_OK = 'where';
- }
-
- use constant IS_VMS => ($^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');
-
- # 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 ';', $ENV{PATHEXT};
- } else {
- # Win9X or other: doesn't have PATHEXT, so needs hardcoded.
- push @PATHEXT, qw{.com .exe .bat};
- }
- } elsif ( IS_VMS ) {
- push @PATHEXT, qw{.exe .com};
- }
-
- sub which {
- my ($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;
- }
- }
- }
-
- 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
- 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 BUGS AND 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.
-
- File::Spec adds the current directory to the front of PATH if on
- Win32, VMS or MacOS. I have no knowledge of those so don't know if the
- current directory is searced first or not. Could someone please tell
- me?
-
- =head1 SUPPORT
-
- Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at
-
- L<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=File-Which>
-
- For other issues, contact the maintainer.
-
- =head1 AUTHOR
-
- Adam Kennedy E<lt>adamk@cpan.orgE<gt>
-
- 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
-