WHERE.exe – Windows CMD Command
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Locate and display files in a directory tree.
The WHERE command is roughly equivalent to the UNIX ‘which’ command. By default, the search is done in the current directory and in the PATH.
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Syntax WHERE [/r Dir] [/q] [/f] [/t] Pattern ... WHERE [/q] [/f] [/t] [$ENV:Pattern In PowerShell: C:\Windows\System32\WHERE.exe ..options as above key /r A recursive search, starting with the specified Dir directory. /q Don’t display the files but return either an exit code of 0 for success or 1 for failure. /f Display the output file name in quotation marks. /t Display the size, time stamp, and date stamp of the file. pattern The Drive\Directory\file, or set of files to be found. you can use wildcard characters ( ? * ) and UNC paths. ENV Path to search where ENV is an existing environment variable containing one or more paths. |
By default, WHERE searches the current directory and the paths specified in the PATH environment variable.
The WHERE command is particularly useful to reveal multiple versions of the same comand/script on the system PATH such as a Resource Kit utility – Robocopy or ForFiles.
To run the WHERE command from PowerShell it is necessary to give the full path C:\Windows\System32\WHERE.exe otherwise the Where-Object cmdlet will take precedence.
Optional search paths (in pattern) should not be used in conjunction with /r Dir.
Examples
Find all copies of robocopy.exe in the current system path:
C:\Windows\System32\WHERE robocopy.exe
Find all files named ‘Zappa’ on the remote computer ‘Server64’ searching the subdirectories of Share1:WHERE /r \\Server64\Share1 Zappa.*
