fpp

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fpp

Find Program Path: iterate through the PATH environment variable to search for the given programs

Description

fpp returns the path names of the files (or links) which would be executed in the current environment. It does this by searching the PATH for executable files matching the names of the arguments. This program also searches for over 30 extensions such as .exe, .ps1, .sh, .py, etc.

Download

Binaries for Windows, MacOS, and Linux can be found on the Releases Page -- expand the Assets to see the downloads.

Usage

Usage: fpp [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Find Program Path: Iterate through the PATH environment variable to search for the given programs

  -p    show all paths and then exit
  -v    show program version and then exit

Install From Source

go get github.com/jftuga/fpp
cd fpp
go build -ldflags="-s -w"
./fpp (or .\fpp.exe)

Examples

Notice that 'curl' appears 3 times and 'notepad' appears twice...

PS C:\github.com\jftuga\fpp> .\fpp.exe curl notepad compmgmt
C:\Windows\system32\curl.exe
C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe
C:\Windows\system32\compmgmt.msc
C:\Windows\notepad.exe
C:\Users\john\scoop\shims\curl.exe
C:\Users\john\scoop\shims\curl.ps1

pi@rpi3:~/fpp $ ./fpp curl ping4 rg gettext
WARNING: '/usr/local/bin' appears multiple times in PATH
/usr/local/bin/rg
/usr/bin/curl
/usr/bin/gettext
/usr/bin/gettext.sh
/bin/ping4