real-executable-path

Find the first instance of an executable in the PATH, with expanding all symbolic links

const realExecutablePath = require('real-executable-path');
const which = require('which');
 
which('npm', (err, binPath) => {
  binPath; //=> '/usr/local/bin/npm'
});
 
realExecutablePath('npm').then(binPath => {
  binPath; //=> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js'
});

Installation

Use npm.

npm install real-executable-path

API

const realExecutablePath = require('real-executable-path');

realExecutablePath(binName [, options])

binName: string (an executable name in the PATH)
options: Object (node-which options except for all)
Return: Promise<string>

It finds the first instance of the given executable in the PATH environment variable, expands all symbolic links and resolves the canonicalized absolute pathname.

Related projects

• real-executable-paths – Returns all matched paths, instead of just the first one
• real-which – CLI

License

ISC License © 2017 - 2018 Shinnosuke Watanabe