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I have always missed the which utility of Unix under Windows, which doesn't seem to have built-in equivalent. So, when I came across batch script parameter modifiers while browsing Windows shell scripting, I decided to write a Windows equivalent of which:

@echo off
rem --------------------------------------------------------
rem File: which.cmd
rem Description: Windows equivalent of Unix which command
rem Author: Pankaj Kumar
rem Copyright 2004 Pankaj Kumar. All Rights Reserved.
rem License: This software is available under GPL
rem ---------------------------------------------------------
setlocal
if "%1" == "" goto noArg


set fullpath=%~$PATH:1
if "%fullpath%" == "" goto notFound
echo Found in PATH: %fullpath%
goto end


:noArg
echo No Argument specified
goto end


:notFound
echo Argument "%1" not found in PATH


:end
endlocal

To use this command, either do a Copy-Paste of the above source code (but, beware of the formatting tags) or download which.cmd.