executable
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Check if a file is executable
$ npm install --save executable
const executable = require('executable');
executable('bash').then(exec => {
console.log(exec);
//=> true
});
Returns a Promise for a boolean.
Returns a boolean of whether the file is executable.
Type: string
Path of the file.
Returns a boolean of whether the mode passed as first argument means that the file is executable.
Type: number
Property mode of fs.Stats instance returned by fs.stat() (or fs.statSync()) function.
Type: number
Respectively the group identity and user identity of the file. If not set, permissions will be evaluated without considering owner or group of the file.
MIT © Kevin Mårtensson
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Check if a file is executable
The npm package executable receives a total of 5,084,069 weekly downloads. As such, executable popularity was classified as popular.
We found that executable demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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