How to run the program with attribute in WHERE

Question

I need to search and run the program in cmd windows 7. I tried the following code it doesn't seems to pickup the operator when key in together.

START WHERE /R C:\ Program.exe /uninstall
dir /s /b Program.exe /uninstall

Is there another (simpler/better) way to start the program with the operators?

Answer 1

where searches files, but does not execute them. start where does nothing but starting where in a new cmd instance, so start relates to where but not to the file searched by where.

dir lists directory contents, but does also not execute anything. Actually you should use dir /S /B C:\Program.exe to search C:\ for Pogram.exe; note that dir /S /B Program.exe searches Program.exe in the current working directory (recursively).

The /uninstall switch is considered as part of the where or the dir command line as you stated it.

You need to split your task into two phases:

1. searching for the file Program.exe in C:\ recursively;
2. executing the file Program.exe using the option /uninstall;

Here is how it could work using where:

for /F "delims=" %%E in ('where /R "C:\" "Program.exe"') do (
    "%%E" /uninstall
)

Here is a way using dir (the /A:-D option has been added to not return directories called Program.exe):

for /F "delims=" %%E in ('dir /S /B /A:-D "C:\Program.exe"') do (
    "%%E" /uninstall
)

If there are more files called Program.exe in C:\, all of them are executed.