I'm trying to determine the location of an executable (java.exe) on Windows. I know it must exist somewhere in the PATH since I can run it, but I don't know the exact directory that it is being run from. On a UNIX system I could use the whence command to obtain this information. Is there an equivalent command for Windows systems?
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I use to do
perl -MPOSIX -e 'print strerror($ARGV[0])."\n";' 13
You can just put the Perl code in a file and have it in the path.
Of course it can be done using C as well
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On my Vista laptop if I type "where java.exe" from the command prompt it gives me the location of java.exe.
Hope this helps.