File Search?

[Storm33229]

In a nut shell what I want to do is this:
1. Ask user for file name.
2. Search entire computer for file.
3. Execute that file.

How?

[Killamus]

string name == "";
while ( !name.Contains("."))
{
Console.WriteLine("Please enter a file name: ");
name = Console.ReadLine();
}
List<string> paths = new List<string>();
paths.AddRange( Directory.GetFiles( "C:", string.Format("{0}", name), SearchOption.AllDirectories ) );

[daat99]

Originally Posted by Killamus

string name == "";
while ( !name.Contains("."))
{
Console.WriteLine("Please enter a file name: ");
name = Console.ReadLine();
}
List<string> paths = new List<string>();
paths.AddRange( Directory.GetFiles( "C:", string.Format("{0}", name), SearchOption.AllDirectories ) );

People should notice that this code expects the file name to have a "dot" in it, that means you can't search for file names that doesn't.

Also this code doesn't make sure the file is an executable (for example I want to run file "run.me.exe" and I insert by accident "run.me", the code will look for the wrong file).

Considering you want to execute the file then this code will do the job intended.
However, I wanted to point out those things in case anyone else will want it to do a file search in general and will grab this code as is.

In any case good job Killamus, keep it up

[Jeff]

you can use DirectoryInfo.GetFiles(), this function allows a search parameter such as *.txt or myfile*.txt and so on.