As of one of the later releases of Windows 10, "curl.exe" is in System32 (or somewhere else on PATH), but if you type "curl" in a powershell you get the alias.

As of one of the later releases of Windows 10, "curl.exe" is in System32 (or somewhere else on PATH), but if you type "curl" in a powershell you get the alias. You need to type "curl.exe" to get the binary. Guessing this is for backwards compatibility with scripts written for the days when it was just PowerShell lying to you. https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html