Hi Byron,
On UNIX and LInux systems, would the which command give you what you want?
sr1-jurassic-02(45) which which
/usr/bin/which
Regards,
-Paul
On 11/16/10 11:30, Byron Nevins wrote:
> Topic:
>
> Q: I need to get the full path for an executable file. I know it is
> somewhere in the user's path. It has to handle the fact that on
> UNIX/LINUX the path is PATH and on Windows it can be either Path or
> PATH or both. Once it gets that path variable it needs to go through
> all of the elements -- IN ORDER -- to find the executable. If it
> finds it it needs to verify that it is executable AND that the user
> has permission to run it.
> Whew! And I want to do it in ONE LINE of code. How to do that?
>
> A:
>
> Q: I have the path to a File. I want to read it in to a String. I
> don't want to add a dozen lines of try/catch/finally boilerplate. Do
> I want a buffered reader? Should it be an InputStream? Oh I forget.
> Where can I copy and paste a dozen lines of code from? Or -- can I do
> this with ONE LINE of code?
>
> A:
>
> Q: Why am I writing this ugly line of code over and over and over and
> over and over again? Is there a better way?
> if(str != null && str.length() > 0)
>
> A:
>
>
>
> On 11/16/2010 10:52 AM, Tom Mueller wrote:
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>> Tom
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>> Agenda - Nov 9, 2010
>>
>> * warning message from create-instance (about down instances)
>>
>> * General Topics
>> o Quality update
>> + Monitoring
>> + Admin Infrastructure
>> o Documentation update
>>
>>
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