If you are running a recent build of Windows 10 (or 11) you would be surprised to learn a number of tools traditionally found in Linux are now bundled with Windows.

Curl

Curl is a popular command line tool for making requests over the internet.

You can find it using this command:

where.exe curl

The exe is important there if you are running in PowerShell because if you omit it it is an alias for where-object.

This should print the following:

You can check the version like so:

curl -v

This should print the following:

Tar

Tar is a utility for creating and managing archives, usually in the formats of zip, tar, gzip and bzip2.

You can find it using this command:

where.exe tar

This should print the following:

You can check the version like so:

tar --version

This should print the following:

SSH Client

SSH is a protocol that allows secure connections to other machines.

Windows now has a bundled ssh client

where.exe ssh


ssh -V

SSH Server

There is also a SSH server bundled in Windows.

where.exe sshd


sshd -V

Happy hacking!