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03.05.2020

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I remembered that I used a tool called as where to find locations for any executable programs like this in a console:

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Now I cannot find this tool. Not sure if Windows has a build-in tool to do that search?

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I think you may be thinking of the which command in Linux.

I'm not aware of an equivalent tool in Windows.

EDIT: I just remembered that there's a package called Unix Utils for Windows that would provide this functionality for you.

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According to the StackOverflow answer at Is there an equivalent of 'which' on windows?, where.exe does this on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 and later:

Example

Output:

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EDIT: I should have added, if you can't use the WHERE command from the command prompt, check your PATH variable. (Just use the 'path' command.) Make sure C:WindowsSystem32 is in your path. That's where 'where.exe' is located.

WHERE is the command you're looking for! WHERE is like a cross between the UNIX shell built-in 'which' and the 'locate' command, in that it works for both command executables and regular files.

It's also somewhat more complex than either of those two, although, in general a simple

will work.

It's different from the 'locate' command in that it's not looking through the entire filesystem. Instead, the default behavior is to look for files in two locations:

  • The current directory.
  • All of the directories in the PATH variable.

So, any command that you can run directly from a command prompt without specifying the directory, will be found by the WHERE command. (Because any command like that is already in the PATH variable list.)

If you want to search only in the command path variable, you can use:

If, on the other hand, you want to find all copies of a file in a directory tree, you can use:

Finally, WHERE will find commands and any files with an extension from the PATHEXT variable without including the extension. All other files have to be specified either exactly or with wildcards.

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Take for example the files 'dxdiag.exe' and 'dxdiagn.dll'. Note the following command and its output:

It succeeds in returning all versions of 'dxdiag.exe' because '.exe' is one of the extensions in the PATHEXT variable. (Note: 'WHERE dxdiag' would have worked as well, because C:WindowsSystem32 is in the PATH variable.)

on the other hand, fails to return any result, because '.dll' is not in PATHEXT.

In this case, look at the result that adding a wildcard gives us:

It successfully returns all versions of dxdiagn.dll.

For more information, use 'WHERE /?'. Hope this helps!

geogeo

use dir:

the cd part changes you to the root of the drive, to ensure searching starts at the top of the hierarchy.

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Note that some things might be a little different for PowerShell:

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Frustrating that it's not built-in as a simple command.

However, there are several solutions, one of which is a batch file.

Create a batch file (which.bat) as follows:

This looks in the local directory, will take a filename parameter with or without an extension, and return the first match from the current directory or in the PATH.

Then run it like which cmd.exe to find the cmd.exe that will execute if you type in cmd.

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On windows you can use the free utility Everything search engine to search instantly for any file by full or partial name (if your hard disk is formatted in ntfs).

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If you just want which, the GnuWin32 project has a bunch of unix utils with individual installers.

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In PowerShell

You can easily convert this into a Cmdlet.

Another way to accomplish this, as suggested in an edit:

AnupamAnupam

If you just need the path to launch it, it's often better to use the start command. For example, you can use 'start chrome.exe' to start Chrom{e ium}, regardless of where it is installed.

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