You know, I found a funny way of emulating "which" using Perl a few years back. This doesn't solve your problem (it's already solved by the look of Helen Bennet's email), but is more along the lines of interesting related things. If you enter this at the command prompt:
perl -S notepad.exe you'll get something like the following: Unrecognized character \x90 at C:\WINDOWS\system32/notepad.exe line 1. That's because -S tells perl to search the path for whatever script you're trying to run. Since notepad.exe isn't a script, it bombs. But you get the path to the file, nonetheless. So if what you're looking for is an executable (or perhaps just not a perl script), you can use this at the command prompt to emulate "which"! jpt > -----Original Message----- > From: Dax T. Games [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 5:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 'which' functionality in Perl > > > How would I determine if a file existed in a directory in the > PATH environment variable on a Windows box with Perl. If the > file exists I want to return the full path to the file. > > The functionality I want is similar to 'which' on Unix/Linux. > > Thanks, > > Dax > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
