grepath 0.0.1

grepath - find executables in PATH that match PATTERN

grepath utility prints full path to executables that match given file-pattern or regular expression.

Examples:

• To print executables that contain ‘pdf’ anywhere in their name:

  $ grepath pdf
  /usr/bin/ps2pdf12
  /usr/bin/ps2pdf13
  ...[snip]...
  /usr/bin/simpdftex
  /usr/bin/dvipdf

• To find executables that don’t have ‘e’ after ‘win’ in their name:

  C:\> grepath -e "win[^e]"
  C:\windows\system32\winhlp32.exe
  C:\windows\system32\winver.exe
  C:\windows\winhlp32.exe
  C:\windows\winhelp.exe

  If *.py files are not associated with python.exe then the script can be invoked using:

  C:\> python \path\to\grepath.py --help

To print all available options, type:

$ grepath --help

Files are licensed under the MIT License. See the file MIT-LICENSE.txt for details.

The latest version is at http://gist.github.com/79233