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

There are two ways to install closest.

• Download the binary from GitHub Releases
• Install via aqua

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

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)

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