The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

Whether it is to pipe the Tcpdump output to another machine hosting Wireshark or checking which service is listening on which port, Windows cmd has similar commands that are present in Linux. Here is some of the most command used in Linux that have equivalent purpose on Windows:

Filtering the output of a commande:

Linux: lsof -s | grep 'https'

Windows: netstat -n -a | findstr "https" (//note the double quotes)

Piping tcp dump to another machines that hosts Wireshark

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Linux: ssh root@remote-linux "tcpdump -s 0 -U -n -w - -i eth0 not port 22" | wireshark -k -i -

Windows: ssh root@remote-linux "tcpdump -s 0 -U -n -w - -i eth0 not port 22" | "C:\Program Files\Wireshark\wireshark.exe" -k -i - (//note that Windows 10 and 11 come with a native SSH client built into cmd!)

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