# Install lookpath with npm

The minimum and most straightforward way to check if command exists and where the executable is. Version 1.2.3 via npm; verified 2025-01-07.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:lookpath
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g lookpath
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:lookpath
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/lookpath>
- **Version:** 1.2.3
- **Source summary:** The minimum and most straightforward way to check if command exists and where the executable is.
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/otiai10/lookpath#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/otiai10/lookpath>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/otiai10/lookpath#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/lookpath/-/lookpath-1.2.3.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/otiai10/lookpath/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-01-07T05:01:38.771Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-07T05:01:38.771Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- lookpath (cli)
- lookpath (alias)

## Build dependencies

- @types/jest
- @types/node
- @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin
- @typescript-eslint/parser
- eslint
- jest
- ts-jest
- typescript

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 1.2.3
- Package-manager updated: 2025-01-07
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/otiai10/lookpath
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for lookpath. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 1.2.3
- **Version Count:** 17
- **Maintainers:** otiai10
- **Author:** otiai10
- **Publisher:** otiai10
- **Engines:** npm: >=6.13.4
- **Integrity:** sha512-kthRVhf4kH4+HW3anM4UBHxsw/XFESf13euCEldhXr6GpBdmBoa7rDd7WO5G0Mhd4G5XtKTcEy8OR0iRZXpS3Q==
- **Shasum:** 681b26482d169515a348e76d7d189ff066a9aefa
- **Unpacked Size:** 16,763
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2019-04-19T03:56:10.819Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-01-07T05:01:38.771Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-01-07T05:01:38.946Z


## Related links

- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [which](https://pkg.so/npm/which/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, executable, executables, path, system.
- [path-exists-cli](https://pkg.so/npm/path-exists-cli/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: check, cli, exists, if, path.
- [can-symlink](https://pkg.so/npm/can-symlink/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, if, is, system, where.

## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph