Skip to content

Add XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS to split environment variables #78

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
oalders merged 2 commits into from
Nov 19, 2025
Merged

Add XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS to split environment variables #78

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
600e5b0
gitignore coverage files
oalders Nov 19, 2025
c49492b
Add XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS to split environment variables
oalders Nov 19, 2025
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions .gitignore
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
c.out
codecov.out
coverage
coverage.out
dist/
is
18 changes: 12 additions & 6 deletions known.go
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -25,10 +25,12 @@ import (
)

const (
manpath = "MANPATH"
path = "PATH"
trueStr = "true"
falseStr = "false"
manpath = "MANPATH"
path = "PATH"
xdgConfigDirs = "XDG_CONFIG_DIRS"
xdgDataDirs = "XDG_DATA_DIRS"
trueStr = "true"
falseStr = "false"
)

// Run "is known ...".
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -310,6 +312,10 @@ func batterySummary(ctx *types.Context, nth int, asJSON bool, asMarkdown bool) (
return tabular(headers, rows, asMarkdown), nil
}

func shouldSplitEnvVar(name string) bool {
return name == path || name == manpath || name == xdgConfigDirs || name == xdgDataDirs
}

func envSummary(ctx *types.Context, asJSON bool, asMarkdown bool) error {
envMap := make(map[string]any)
rows := make([][]string, 0, len(os.Environ()))
Expand All @@ -325,7 +331,7 @@ func envSummary(ctx *types.Context, asJSON bool, asMarkdown bool) error {

name, value := parts[0], parts[1]

if name == path || name == manpath {
if shouldSplitEnvVar(name) {
pathParts := strings.Split(value, ":")
if asJSON {
envMap[name] = pathParts
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -369,7 +375,7 @@ func getEnv(ctx *types.Context, name string, asJSON bool) (string, error) {
values := []string{}

switch {
case set && (name == path || name == manpath):
case set && shouldSplitEnvVar(name):
values = strings.Split(value, ":")
case set:
values = append(values, value)
Expand Down