closest

The command that searches the current directory or parent directories for a specific file and returns the closest path.

Install

There are two ways to install closest.

• Download the binary from GitHub Releases
• Install via aqua

Usage

Usage: closest [options] [pattern]
Options:
  -a    Search all files[default: false]

To find a closest file the current directory, run the following:

closest .tflint.hcl

To find all files from the current directory to root directory, run the following:

closest -a .envrc

Example 1: Find a .tflint.hcl file and run tflint

tflint only references .tflint.hcl in the current or home directory. This makes it easy to read per-project settings in the repository root or in the terraform directory in monorepo.

The directory structure is as follows, where staging is the current directory.

/
└── home
    └── app
        └── terraform
            ├── .tflint.hcl
            └── example-service
                ├── production
                └── staging # <- current directory

To run tflint in combination with closest, run the following:

tflint --config $(closest .tflint.hcl)

Example 2: Find all .envrc files up to the root directory

Sometimes when using direnv, you want to find where .envrc is defined from the root directory to the current directory. In that case, you can use the -a option to display all .envrc files up to the root directory, which is useful for troubleshooting.

The directory structure is as follows, where production is the current directory.

/
└── home
    └── app
        ├── .envrc
        └── terraform
            ├── .envrc
            └── example-service
                ├── .envrc
                ├── production  # <- current directory
                |   └── .envrc
                └── staging

To find all .envrc from production to the root directory, run the following:

closest -a .envrc

Please take care that the filename must be prefix with -a. For example, closest .envrc -a doesn't work.

The output:

/home/app/terraform/example-service/production/.envrc
/home/app/terraform/example-service/.envrc
/home/app/terraform/.envrc
/home/app/.envrc