Equivalent of "where" command prompt command in C#
I don't think there is a built-in method in the Common Language Runtime to do this for you, but you can certainly do it yourself:
- Get the value of the
PATH
environment variable - Split it on
;
delimiters to get a list of directories in the path - Check each of those directories to see if it contains
program
Example:
public static string FindInPath(string filename)
{
var path = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH");
var directories = path.Split(';');
foreach (var dir in directories)
{
var fullpath = Path.Combine(dir, filename);
if (File.Exists(fullpath)) return fullpath;
}
// filename does not exist in path
return null;
}
Don't forget to add .exe
to the filename. (Or, you could modify the code above to search for any executable extension: .bat
, .com
, .exe
; or perhaps even any extension at all.)