what is windows equivalent of “which” command in Linux ? Is there is equivalent powershell command?

Question

In linux, we have "which" command to find out path of executable. what is its windows equivalent? Is there any powershell command for doing that?

Thank you,

Answer 1

Yes, Get-Command will find all commands including executables:

PS\> Get-Command ipconfig

If you want to limit the commands to just executables:

PS\> Get-Command -CommandType Application

Will find all exes in your path. There is an alias for interactive use:

PS\> gcm net* -CommandType Application

For more info, run man Get-Command -full.

Answer 2

Some versions of Windows (I think Windows 2003 and up) have the where command:

c:\>where ping
C:\Windows\System32\PING.EXE

Answer 3

In addition to user10404, the help command will work on aliases, so you can use the same command name (gcm) for help and interactive use:

help gcm -Parameter *
# or
man gcm -Par *