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How to run apps from Windows' command line like in Linux
Context: I use Fedora GNU/Linux as my main OS, but sometimes I need to work within Windows.
Over the years, using Linux distros, I have become used to working mainly through the command line, calling ...
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How to call programs from cmd directly without adding their paths to PATH variable on windows?
Suppose I installed a new package with someProgram in it:
myNewPackageDir/bin/someProgram
If I want to accessing it from cmd using only its name (example: someProgram --option1 a --option2 b --option3 ...
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Windows 10 command prompt is not recognizing any basic commands
I have read forums, but have not found anything useful about what to do, with someone suggesting it might be with my PATH variable, but I don't know how to fix that.
Output of ipconfig:
Output of ...
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Git bash and cmd don't load my user account PATH variable
Start up a gitbash or a windows cmd session and run
echo $PATH
or
echo %PATH%
They both print the contents of the system PATH variable, but neither prints the contents of the PATH variable ...
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CMD doesn't update environment variables
When I edit the system environment variable PATH (or any other, I imagine) through Control Panel\System and Security\System > Advanced system settings, it doesn't update in CMD, even after ...
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'sample.exe' not recognised as internal or external command, operable program or batch file
Under Environment Variables, I set the path to sample.exe.
I appended the System variable PATH with,
C:\Program Files(x86)\Sample
The sample.exe is in the Sample folder.
Still, I get the above ...
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Evaluate %PATH% as the system-scope environment variable exclusively
In Windows' command line, echo %PATH% appears to merge the system and the user variables PATH in such order before printing. That seems reasonable, but I would also like to be able to print only the ...
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Is there a way to reverse lookup which executable is being called?
I have multiple JDK's installed on my machine and I'm running on a system that has a pretty long path environment variable. Is there a way to see what my call to java resolves to?
I'm looking for ...
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Windows - How to use user defined environment variables in system path
As the question states, I have some variables defined in my user environment in windows 8.1. Now I want to have something like this as a path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;%USER_V1%;C:\...
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Name "wmplayer" is not recognized as an executable file
I cannot run wmplayer from either cmd or PowerShell. My OS is Windows 7 64 bit. I can do it using
start wmplayer
but I cannot use parameters. Please, help me to handle it.
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How put path changing .bat file inside %PATH%?
I have a problem described here (you can read it for better understanding). I need to write .bat file that change path.
For example:
While sending a command in cmd: cd ~
I want to go to %HOMEPATH%. ...
