What is Windows' equivalent of the "which" command in Unix? Is there an equivalent PowerShell command?

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In Linux, we have the "which" command to find out the path of an executable. What is its Windows equivalent? Is there any PowerShell command for doing that?

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Newer versions of Windows (I think Windows 2003 and up) have the where command: And for PowerShell, explicitly add the .exe suffix:

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