Crate appfinder 

Appfinder

find the location of applications on the system.

Resolves multiple folders on windows to find binaries on

Usage

use appfinder::get_app_path;
fn main() {
    let path = get_app_path("firefox");
    println!("Firefox is located at: {:?}", path);
}

use appfinder::get_app_path;
fn main() {
    let path = get_app_path("discord");
    println!("Discord is located at: {:?}", path);

}

Os support

thing	Windows	Macos	Linux
path	🚫	✅	✅
desktop files	🚫	🚫	✅
start menu	✅	🚫	🚫
appdata	✅	🚫	🚫

Caveats

• on linux desktopfiles return the full commands even arguments these can be manually removed
• the name of the application you want to find must be lowercase

Functions

get_app_path

remove_arguments