WhereIs

An up-to-date version of this and other files can be found in my CommandLineTools project on GitHub.

WhereIs is my version of an old Unix tool. It attempts to locate the specified programs in a list of standard Windows places. The search order is

• The directory in which the command processor is located;
• The current directory;
• The system directory;
• The Windows directory and
• The directories in the PATH environment variable.

Synopsis

whereis [options] progname ...

Options

WhereIs can also emulate another Unix tool, Which. This tries to find which executable will be called if you enter its name on the command line. To use WhereIs in that mode, use the −w or /w command line switch.

To get a simple help text, use the -h or -? command line switches.

Finally

WhereIs is freeware. All rights are reserved. Its code is provided as is, expressly without a warranty of any kind. You use it at your own risk.

I hope this code is useful to you. If you use some of it, please credit me. If you modify or improve WhereIs, please send me the modifications.

I may improve or enhance WhereIs myself, and I will try to post changes here. But this is not a promise. Please don’t request features.

Rudy Velthuis