// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package exec import ( "errors" "os" "strings" ) // ErrNotFound is the error resulting if a path search failed to find an executable file. var ErrNotFound = errors.New("executable file not found in $path") func findExecutable(file string) error { d, err := os.Stat(file) if err != nil { return err } if m := d.Mode(); !m.IsDir() && m&0111 != 0 { return nil } return os.ErrPermission } // LookPath searches for an executable binary named file // in the directories named by the path environment variable. // If file begins with "/", "#", "./", or "../", it is tried // directly and the path is not consulted. // The result may be an absolute path or a path relative to the current directory. func LookPath(file string) (string, error) { // skip the path lookup for these prefixes skip := []string{"/", "#", "./", "../"} for _, p := range skip { if strings.HasPrefix(file, p) { err := findExecutable(file) if err == nil { return file, nil } return "", &Error{file, err} } } path := os.Getenv("path") for _, dir := range strings.Split(path, "\000") { if err := findExecutable(dir + "/" + file); err == nil { return dir + "/" + file, nil } } return "", &Error{file, ErrNotFound} }