Re: How to get application path
Re: How to get application path
- Subject: Re: How to get application path
- From: "Filippo Ignozza" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:26:25 +0200
- Organization: Digital Video S.p.a.
- Priority: normal
thanks for your answer but the application i want to run is not in
PATH.
On 21 Jun 2007 at 7:28, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On 6/21/07, Filippo Ignozza <email@hidden> wrote:
> > is there an easy way to get using C++ the fullpath of an X11
> > Application?
>
> Applications can live anywhere on disk. But in order to be runnable,
> they have to be somewhere in the $PATH. The standard C library
> includes a function to search the $PATH for an app and run it
> (execvp), but I don't think there's one for finding the exe without
> running it. I think for that you have to just loop through the
> directories in getenv("PATH") and check for existence of the program
> in each one. You can probably borrow code from the which command, or
> any of the shells, or...
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
>
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