pathdebug

pathdebug

a simple interactive & one-shot tool to debug path list environment variables

Features

• detect duplicate expanded path entries
• detecting non-existent paths and files
• interactive mode
• noninteractive formatted output

Install

from source:

go install

from github:

go install github.com/d-led/pathdebug@latest

replace latest with the desired/latest commit hash if you had the tool installed already.

alternatively, download the binary from Github releases.

On OSX you might need to run sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine pathdebug on the downloaded binary.

Usage

pathdebug {nameOfEnvironmentVariable}

help:

pathdebug --help

Interactive

export SOME_PATH='/sbin:~/.bashrc:/a:/b:/a:/c:/d:/e:/f:/g'
pathdebug SOME_PATH

↓

tap Esc/q/Ctrl-C to quit, <-/-> to paginate
+---+--------+-----+-----------+
| # | DUP[#] | BAD | PATH      |
+---+--------+-----+-----------+
| 1 |        |     | /sbin     |
| 2 |        | F   | ~/.bashrc |
| 3 | 5      | X   | /a        |
| 4 |        | X   | /b        |
| 5 | 3      | X   | /a        |
| 6 |        | X   | /c        |
+---+--------+-----+-----------+
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Direct Output

export SOME_PATH='/sbin:~/.bashrc:/a:/b:/a:/c:/d:/e:/f:/g'
pathdebug SOME_PATH -o table

see help for other formats

License