Windows equivalent of which command in linux

Question

Can you please tell me what is Windows XP equivalent of “which” command in Linux? I have tired 'where', but it does not work on Windows XP.

Answer 1

There is no equivalent in Windows, but you can try one of these two substitutes:

http://nedbatchelder.com/code/utilities/wh_py.html (Click on "Download: wh.py")

or this guy created a script too:

http://pankaj-k.net/weblog/2004/11/equivalent_of_which_in_windows.html

Answer 2

There are several possibilities that you can choose from:

• Use a true POSIX which command. The SFUA utility toolkit, whose tools run in the Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications that comes right there in the box with Windows 7 Ultimate edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 (For Windows XP, one can download and install Services for UNIX version 3.5.), has a which command, along with some 300 other POSIX tools. Its Korn shell also has the type built-in command, which of course understands the shell's own aliases.

  It comes in both x86-64 and IA64 flavours as well as x86-32. The programs run in Windows' native proper POSIX environment, rather than with emulator DLLs (such as cygwin1.dll) layering things over Win32.

• Use a Win32 port of which. Oft-mentioned are GNUWin32, cygwin, and unxutils.
• Use a replacement command interpreter and use its built-in facilities. JP Software's TCC/LE is one such. It has a built in WHICH command, which understands TCC's aliases and executable extensions.

Answer 3

A bit overkill, but for completeness: Cygwin will give you which on Windows.

Answer 4

This is actually answered on SE, in great detail:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/304319/is-there-an-equivalent-of-which-on-windows

Maybe it should be merged to Superuser, instead marked off topic on that site.