Dan Miser - whereis command for Windows

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

I have a PATH that is miles long, and I needed to find out where a certain application was launching from. On a good operating system, this kind of functionality is built in. :-) On a Windows operating system, you can create a BAT file, or download a utility.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:42:36 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:48:37 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

It's built in on Vista.

Raymond

Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:40:04 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

You mean UNIX, right? ;)

Grant Rettke

Friday, January 11, 2008 12:26:10 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks, Raymond. I wasn't aware of that. I'm hearing a lot of good things about Vista SP1, so I may take the plunge and try it again.

Dan Miser

Saturday, January 12, 2008 11:03:57 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

What about DIR /S ??

I just typed "dir \dcc32.exe /s" from a non-root folder at the command prompt and it found it in Program Files\Borland\BDS\4.0\bin.

Do you need more than this provides? Type DIR /? for more options.

David Cornelius.

David Cornelius

Sunday, January 13, 2008 8:48:49 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

a) That is just a brute force scan of your entire hard drive. Not very quick.

b) If I had Delphi 6 through Delphi 2007 installed, I'd have like 5 copies of dcc32.exe installed. What I want to know, is which version of dcc32.exe would be launched if I just typed "dcc32.exe". The dir /s option wouldn't do that.

Dan Miser

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:21:32 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Ah, that's right. It's been a long time since I used whereis.

David Cornelius

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