Thread: Gettting path of a program

Hi !!!
How can i get the path of specific program using C ?
I need to get the path of x program in order to copy files.... in reality i'm trying to make a autocrack.exe file.
The all i need to known is the above command

Thanks

I need to get the path of x program in order to copy files

Assuming that you do not know the location of X program, then you would use FindFirstfile and FindNextfile and recursivley call the file finding function to search for X program.

Code:

char szFileName[MAX_PATH];
HINSTANCE hInstance = GetModuleHandle(NULL);

GetModuleFileName(hInstance, szFileName, MAX_PATH);

szFileName being the char array to copy the file name to, you can replace MAX_PATH with whatever no. you want, or you could probably use a string (such as str1.c_str()) in place of a char. But that will return the path to the executable file (C:\test.exe), so you'll have to change that to C:\ or whatever.

Code:

#include <direct.h>

...

void Foo()
{
	...

	char *tempPath = new char[512];		  // Create a cstring to store the path in

	getcwd(tempPath, 511);				// tempPath now stores the path of the directory
									// of the *.exe file.
	...

	cout << "This program has been executed from the directory: " << tempPath;

	...

	delete [] tempPath;
}

I'm not good at writing snippets of code like that, but I think you get the idea, getcwd() takes two parameters, the first is a cstring that will hold the directory in it and the second is how much space you are giving it.

Thanks for your answers, were really helpful !
Matsp i really mean this dir /s/b progname.exe

I want to get the dir of a program like patches do, and copy/paste crack to the folder of x program but using C.

Thank you for the advice.
I will try both and choose the best.