How to find the directory of an exe that is on path

Question

Is there any simple way to get the full directory of an exe that the windows is mapping though the PATH environment variable?

Something like:

C:\>whereis myexe

What windows version are you on? – hmjd Jan 03 '12 at 11:21 — hmjd, Jan 03 '12 at 11:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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Have a look at this answer. You could turn the script shown here into a batch file that would work as you have suggested in your question:

Also, the Where commmand in Windows 7 does this:

where myexe.exe

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

Community

answered Jan 03 '12 at 11:17

Raul Marengo

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '12 at 11:19

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You can create this batch file and give the exe file as argument

@setlocal
@set P2=.;%PATH%
@for %%e in (%PATHEXT%) do @for %%i in (%~n1%%e) do @if NOT "%%~$P2:i"=="" echo %%~$P2:i

answered Jan 03 '12 at 11:19

GuZzie

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 03 '12 at 11:25

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You are looking for the UNIX "which" command. Here's a windows version:

answered Jan 03 '12 at 11:25

Chris

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