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Does anybody know how to determine the location of a file that's in one of the folders specified by the PATH environmental variable other than doing a dir filename.exe /s from the root folder?
I know this is stretching the bounds of a programming question but this is useful for deployment-related issues, also I need to examine the dependencies of an executable. :-)
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A path is either relative or absolute. An absolute path always contains the root element and the complete directory list required to locate the file. For example, /home/sally/statusReport is an absolute path. All of the information needed to locate the file is contained in the path string.
A path is a slash-separated list of directory names followed by either a directory name or a file name. A directory is the same as a folder.
The best Linux command to get file path is using pwd command. To use this command, type “pwd” into your terminal and press enter. This command will print the current working directory. The output will be the file path.
Go to the destination folder and click on the path (highlights in blue). type cmd. Command prompt opens with the path set to your current folder.
You can use the where.exe utility in the C:\Windows\System32 directory.
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