Search PATH for commands matching the prefix

[beaugunderson]

git does this and I think it would be a great addition to helmsman. I'm working on a project that I want to be easily extensible by others and I specifically want to support one-off scripts in the PATH that can plug in underneath the main app (in any language, like git supports).

[mattmcmanus]

Interesting idea! So your thinking if your app prefix is superApp- that it should check all executables in PATH that start with that prefix?

I'm thinking this would be a good optional flag when instantiating helsman

var cli = helmsman({prefix: 'superApp-', includePATH: true})

As I don't have a pressing need for this I don't know if I'll get to it quickly. Please send a pull-request if you feel so inspired!

Just a tech note, to get all executables in PATH:

ls `echo $PATH | sed 's/:/ /g'`