Comments on snippet: 'look for given .exe in PATH' Snipplr comments feed https://snipplr.com/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:50:18 +0000 Vordreller said on 17/Apr/2009 https://snipplr.com/view/14134/look-for-given-exe-in-path <p>Sorry dude, syntax is wrong, copied it, made it one line, replaced foobar.exe with notepad.exe, entered it, got an error message: %%f was unexpected at this time.</p> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:58:48 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/14134/look-for-given-exe-in-path maphew said on 21/Apr/2009 https://snipplr.com/view/14134/look-for-given-exe-in-path <p>use double percent (%%f) when in batch file, single (%f) when a command line. So for command line use it would be: `for %f in (notepad.exe) do if exist "%~dp$PATH:f" echo %f located at "%~dp$PATH:f"`</p> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:02:27 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/14134/look-for-given-exe-in-path