API to find `dotnet` host executable
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> Historically our guidance (given to us by other teams) was to try to not parse PATH and make sense out of it
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> Yeah I'm not really thrilled about parsing `$PATH` either. Ended up just stealing the code from [msbuild that does it](https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/blob/main/src/Utilities/ToolTask.cs#L1259). This is essentially how our entire build tool stack works today so it seems like a good source to draw some.
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> Would be nice to have an API for `FindOnPath` but that seems unlikely. Also I'd still have to polyfill that for downlevel targets.
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> @rainersigwald, @baronfel: have you all ever considered exposing a `FindToolPath` on `ToolTask` or MSBuild APIs in general that we could use to find `dotnet`? That way the logic for parsing `$PATH` is centralized.
_Originally posted by @jaredpar in https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/88754#issuecomment-1633029934_
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