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Given a command-line style path to a command such as bin/server.exe or ping , how can I get the full path to this executable (as cmd or Process.Start would resolve it)? I tried Path.GetFullPath , but it always expands relative to the working directory. It expands bin/server.exe correctly, however given ping it returns c:\users\matt\ping (non-existent). I want c:\Windows\system32\ping.exe . Edit: I would like the same behaviour as cmd. Some considerations: When there is a local executable with the same name as one in the path, cmd prefers the local one cmd can expand the command server to server.bat or server.exe ( adding the file extension ) I also tried Windows' command-line tool called where . It does almost I want: Displays the location of files that match the search pattern. By default, the search is done along the current directory and in the paths specified by the PATH environment variable. >where ping C:\Windows\System32\PING.EXE >where bin\server INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s). (This question is hard to search around because of the two different meanings of the word 'path')

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