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package Local::Util;

# Copyright (C) 2019 Sean Whitton
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at
# your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

use strict;
use warnings;

use Exporter 'import';

our @EXPORT_OK = qw(as_root executable_find);

# Prefix a command if that's necessary to run it as root.  Currently
# supports only sudo(1).  If passed more than one argument, prepends
# this list with 'sudo'.  If passed a single string argument, returns
# a list or a string depending on context and whether the string
# argument contains spaces
sub as_root {
    my $context = wantarray();
    return unless defined $context;
    if (@_ == 0) {
        return $context ? () : "";
    } elsif (@_ == 1) {
        my $prepend = $context && $_[0] !~ /\s/;
        if ($> == 0) {
            return $prepend ? @_ : $_[0];
        } else {
            return $prepend ? ("sudo", @_) : "sudo ".$_[0];
        }
    } else {
        # Ignore context in this case, because joining the list of
        # arguments into a single string completely correctly is
        # fairly involved
        return $> == 0 ? @_ : ("sudo", @_);
    }
}

=head executable_find($name)

Return the full path to $name if it is on PATH, else error.

=cut

sub executable_find {
    chomp(my $output = `sh -c "command -v $_[0]"`);
    $? == 0 ? return $output : die "$_[0] not found on PATH"
}

1;