Windows – Equivalent of cmd’s “where” in powershell

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I can't seem to find anything about a Powershell equivalent of the where command from cmd. Should I just call it from cmd or is there something more elegant in PS?

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Use the Get-Command commandlet passing it the name of the executable. It populates the Path property of the returned object (of type ApplicationInfo) with the fully resolved path to the executable.

# ~> (get-command notepad.exe).Path
C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe

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Windows – PowerShell equivalent to the Unix `which` command

This was asked and answered on Stack Overflow: Equivalent of *Nix 'which' command in PowerShell?

The very first alias I made once I started customizing my profile in PowerShell was 'which'.

New-Alias which get-command

To add this to your profile, type this:

"`nNew-Alias which get-command" | add-content $profile

The `n at the start of the last line is to ensure it will start as a new line.

Windows – Windows’ equivalent of the “which” command in Unix? Is there an equivalent PowerShell command

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

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

And for PowerShell, explicitly add the .exe suffix:

PS C:\>where.exe ping
C:\Windows\System32\PING.EXE

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