Function find_cmd

IPython/utils/process.py:35–57

Find absolute path to executable cmd in a cross platform manner. This function tries to determine the full path to a command line program using `which` on Unix/Linux/OS X and `win32api` on Windows. Most of the time it will use the version that is first on the users `PATH`. Warning

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def find_cmd(cmd):
    """Find absolute path to executable cmd in a cross platform manner.

    This function tries to determine the full path to a command line program
    using `which` on Unix/Linux/OS X and `win32api` on Windows.  Most of the
    time it will use the version that is first on the users `PATH`.

    Warning, don't use this to find IPython command line programs as there
    is a risk you will find the wrong one.  Instead find those using the
    following code and looking for the application itself::

        import sys
        argv = [sys.executable, '-m', 'IPython']

    Parameters
    ----------
    cmd : str
        The command line program to look for.
    """
    path = shutil.which(cmd)
    if path is None:
        raise FindCmdError('command could not be found: %s' % cmd)
    return path


def abbrev_cwd():