# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project # Simplified BSD License (see licenses/simplified_bsd.txt or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause) from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function) __metaclass__ = type import os from ansible.module_utils.common.file import is_executable def get_bin_path(arg, opt_dirs=None, required=None): ''' Find system executable in PATH. Raises ValueError if executable is not found. Optional arguments: - required: [Deprecated] Prior to 2.10, if executable is not found and required is true it raises an Exception. In 2.10 and later, an Exception is always raised. This parameter will be removed in 2.14. - opt_dirs: optional list of directories to search in addition to PATH In addition to PATH and opt_dirs, this function also looks through /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin. A lot of modules, especially for gathering facts, depend on this behaviour. If found return full path, otherwise raise ValueError. ''' opt_dirs = [] if opt_dirs is None else opt_dirs sbin_paths = ['/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/local/sbin'] paths = [] for d in opt_dirs: if d is not None and os.path.exists(d): paths.append(d) paths += os.environ.get('PATH', '').split(os.pathsep) bin_path = None # mangle PATH to include /sbin dirs for p in sbin_paths: if p not in paths and os.path.exists(p): paths.append(p) for d in paths: if not d: continue path = os.path.join(d, arg) if os.path.exists(path) and not os.path.isdir(path) and is_executable(path): bin_path = path break if bin_path is None: raise ValueError('Failed to find required executable "%s" in paths: %s' % (arg, os.pathsep.join(paths))) return bin_path