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Friday, August 19, 2022

[FIXED] How do I find a file that may not be fully-qualified by using the environment path?

 August 19, 2022     .net, c#, environment-variables, path, relative-path     No comments   

Issue

I have an executable name, like "cmd.exe" and need to resolve it's fully-qualified path. I know the exe appears in one of the directories listed in the PATH environment variable. Is there a way to resolve the full path without parsing and testing each directory in the PATH variable? basically I don't want to do this:

foreach (string entry in Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH").Split(';'))
    ...

There has to be a better way, right?


Solution

This seems like a pretty good way of doing it already -- as far as I know, searching through the directories in the PATH environment variable is what Windows does anyway when it's trying to resolve a path.



Answered By - Donut
Answer Checked By - Dawn Plyler (PHPFixing Volunteer)
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