apppath

apppath.exe

Print App Paths.

$ apppath.exe wordpad.exe
"%ProgramFiles%\Windows NT\Accessories\WORDPAD.EXE"

Some applications are executable even if it is not on %PATH%. Because the application's fullpath is written in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths.

This program shows it.

Example

Build with the solution of Visual Studio.

Batchfile:

for /F "tokens=*" %%D in ('apppath devenv.exe') do "%%D" example.sln /build Release

is substituted to :

"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" example.sln /build Debug

We need not to run the heavy batchfile vcvarsall.bat so-called "Visual Studio Command Prompt."

Misc.

apppath.exe is same as:

for /F "skip=2 tokens=2*" %%I in ('reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\%1" /ve') do echo %%J