Linux which equivalent windows

Millions of people visit TecMint! If you like what you are reading, please consider buying us a coffee or 2 as a token of appreciation. We are thankful for your never ending support. Only Windows 10 was that level of awful. On the good side, by now I have been using Linux for almost 6 years in other news, Windows 10 is about to celebrate its 6th birthday… such a coincidence! Windows 8. They both have ridiculous half-phone, half-PC user interfaces, but you can fix that with things like Classic Shell now Open Shell, since the constant churn of Windows 10 updates burned out the creator and former dev of Classic Shell , Old-New Explorer, a custom theme and the enabling patch, and so on.

Once you have done that with Windows 8. With Windows 10, you can fix the weird UI now, but in 6 months when the next feature update comes along, you might have to do them again. Time will tell when the final version is available. Not a well-researched article, and seems out of whack in priorities.

ReactOS is an especially terrible inclusion, for reasons already stated. For an article titled with specialty to Windows users, pitching Elementary is a bizarre choice anywhere but as 5 honorary mention for looking good in a Mac paradigm, not a Windows one. The users of previous versions had no choice. Microsoft forced the Win 10 upgrade on just about everybody. By that, they mean that Linux should look and feel like Windows, work like Windows, and run all the Windows software but not be from Microsoft.

Ever since they came into existence, ReactOS has been in a perpetual state of development, playing a continuous game of catch-up with Windows. With each new Windows release, ReactOS has been falling further and further behind on features and capabilities. Other posters have bitterly complained that Linux is much harder to learn than Windows. Click on the Start menu icon, search for Command Prompt , right-click the Best Match, and select Run as administrator.

Once the Command Prompt window is open, navigate to the directory you want to view and type dir. Command Prompt will now list all of the files in the current working directory, along with their sizes and last modified date.

If you love using Linux, you'll likely find that Microsoft's own command prompt is a bit weaker in comparison. Fortunately, the "ls" command is also on Windows; it just uses a different name.

If you haven't explored it yet, the Windows Command Prompt utility is a handy gateway to using more advanced Windows tools. It is always a good idea to be familiar with Windows CMD commands so you can make full use of your copy of Windows. The Command Prompt is your gateway to advanced Windows tools. Learn more. Is there an equivalent of 'which' on the Windows command line?

Asked 12 years, 11 months ago. Active 7 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Wolf 8, 7 7 gold badges 52 52 silver badges 95 95 bronze badges. Foredecker: "which" searches the PATH for the executable that will be run if you type a command at the shell prompt. Foredecker, MR says it's "where" in Win2k3 but Win2k3 wasn't part of the question. If "where" isn't in the other Windows versions, other answers are also valid. Also, the other answers aren't wrong, just different ways of doing it.

I know this question arose before SuperUser, but it probably belongs there. There is no which command in standard Unix. The C Shell has a which command, and some systems have it as an external executable.

For instance, on Debian Linux, which comes from a package called debutils. This external which does not "see" shell built-ins, aliases or functions. Show 5 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Michael Ratanapintha Michael Ratanapintha No, because grep examines the contents of its input, which you have to give explicitly.

Ajedi32 - Correct, which is not in XP. As I said, "Windows Server and later". Remember that where. Show 8 more comments. And, if you want one that can handle all the extensions in PATHEXT as Windows itself does , this one does the trick: echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion :: Needs an argument.

Hey, I wish I had learned that! Raymond Chen has a more "elaborate" version you can turn into a batch file: blogs. Michael, if you're still using DOS or Win95, finding executables on the path are the least of your problems :- — paxdiablo.

I've now added one which can do what you wish but it's no longer a simple command so much as a script. It first tries the unadorned command then each of the extension ones. Hope that helps. You can tweak it to your needs as you see fit if you want the same search order as with Windows for example - this one shows all possibilities.

To turn this into a batch script, create a file called "which. Show 2 more comments. It finds much more than just executables. It also catches command files — Maximilian Burszley. TheIncorrigible1 - if you mean command files such as batch files. BAT ,. Other executable types e. This should honestly be selected as the best answer now that it is , since the original answer was posted back in Times have changed.

PowerShell is the way, especially being that this answer is now cross-platform for wherever PowerShell exists. Add a comment. In Windows PowerShell: set-alias which where. Peter Mortensen 29k 21 21 gold badges 97 97 silver badges bronze badges. RexE RexE 16k 14 14 gold badges 55 55 silver badges 80 80 bronze badges.

I was looking for this exact pithy powershell command. I had been using where. I cannot get which. The gcm answer would be far better use of PowerShell today: stackoverflow.

Ferruccio Ferruccio 95k 38 38 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Where will list out all the available resources.