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127 questions linked to/from What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
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How do I set system environment variables in Windows 10? [duplicate]
How do I set a system environment variable in Windows 10 (without using the registry editor)?
(Note: Other answers don't specifically address Windows 10 - at least not yet - and they leave off ...
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Easier way to change environment variables in Windows 8? [duplicate]
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What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
I know that I can edit my environment variables in windows 8 by going to
Start -> All Apps -&...
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Add /usr/local/sbin to the PATH of a user [duplicate]
if I type
echo $PATH
I only get
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
how can I add /usr/local/sbin to the path, so it is already there the next time?
(I use debian squeeze)
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How is it that I can run explorer.exe from any directory in the command prompt? [duplicate]
How is it that I can run explorer from command prompt regardless of which directory I'm in?
How can I mimic this with my own exe? Is it merely the fact that this exe exists in the Windows dir?
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Setting path in Windows 7 command prompt [duplicate]
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How do I set PATH and other environment variables?
How can one set the path permanently in command-prompt. I tried using the following code :-
set path=%path%;C:\python27
It ...
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Set environment variables from command line - and make them stick globally [duplicate]
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What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
In Windows 2008 Server R2, once I set an environment variable in the command line, how can I make ...
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Set nano as a default editor over Vim [duplicate]
Every time I login to ssh terminal to edit files I execute the command
export EDITOR=nano
How Could I set nano as default editor so I shouldn't execute this command anymore
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How to set environment variables on Windows 8 [duplicate]
Can anyone tell me how to set environment variables for Windows 8? I can't figure out how. I've tried following instructions for Windows 7, but they don't apply to Windows 8.
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In which places is the Windows %PATH% defined? [duplicate]
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I ran a third-party install script which added its folders to the %PATH% variable in the Windows ...
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How can I permanently add a path to my bash profile? [duplicate]
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I would like to put the path of a binary in my bash profile which is not present in the usual location like /usr/bin or /...
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Setting environment variables Mac 10.6 [duplicate]
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How to set an environment variable in Mac OS 10.6. I am finding it difficult or the options that ...
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Environment Variables and Shell Rc File [duplicate]
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I am trying to automatically establish a connection with Amazon s3 using keys. This documentation ...
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Edit the command line path for an executable on OSX [duplicate]
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What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
I have the default package of Ruby installed that shipped with the OS, which is an older version.
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Changing Windows 7 PATH avriable [duplicate]
I saw this question and answer but this is not working for me.
I am following Python tutorials. There is a section that requires me to change the path variable. I used the instructions in the command ...
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How to set environment variable in OS X Lion [duplicate]
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I want to add a path variable to the directory ~/bin
How should I do it in OS X Lion?
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How to alter my mac os $PATH variable so that I can run the latest php version? [duplicate]
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What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
I've just followed this article (http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/server/upgrading-the-native-...
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how did git add itself to the PATH on OSX 10.6 ? It's not in bashrc or profile? [duplicate]
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How do I set PATH and other environment variables?
I recently installed git 1.7.4.4 via the installer from here http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/ (not via homebrew ...
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How do you set the PATH in your .profile file? [duplicate]
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I'm currently trying out Homebrew and it has told me to list it's folder before the default ...
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Adding to system path [duplicate]
I am trying to install the File Checksum Integrity Verifier utility package on my Win 10. downloaded the folder and extracted it into C:\FCIV and now I have to add that to my system path. I went to ...
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How can I easily add to PATH? [duplicate]
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How do I set PATH and other environment variables?
In windows (XP) how can I easily append to PATH permanently.
I know that you can change it by going to My Computer -> ...
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Can someone give me a rundown on what exactly the path variable does? [duplicate]
I'm reading my textbook and it said if I'm downloading java jdk Id want to set my path variable. But I already download my java JDK and JRE and its completely functioning.(I'm using eclipse). However, ...
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How use windows command-line to run tools like SVN and MYSQL without going to theirs respective path [duplicate]
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Adding an .exe to default path without adding the directory
What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
Hi I would like to use windows ...
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What does this command do in Mac OS X? [duplicate]
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What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
export PATH="/Users/your_user/scala/bin:$PATH"
I know I need to do this to set up certain ...
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How can I set a file located in the Roaming Folder as an Environment Variable? [duplicate]
I have installed Jupyter on my Windows. The jupyter.exe command looks like stored in C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\Scripts.
C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python310\Scripts>...
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how to add mysql to path global variables [duplicate]
I have recently installed MySQL and am trying to access it through my command prompt by simply typing in MySQL.
I believe I need to add it to my PATH globals. How can I do this?
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Where do I put environment variables that I want set on boot (or login)? [duplicate]
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What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
Where do I put environment variables that I want set on boot (or login)?
In particular, I want ...
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Adding pip, pip3, pip3.7 to PATH [duplicate]
Hi after the installation, I got this warning:
The scripts pip, pip3 and pip3.7 are installed in '/Users/stevetsang/Library/Python/3.7/bin' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to ...
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how to find out what shortcut is used for a application by start command in cmd windows? [duplicate]
How does application (any) make its shortcut for launch in installation? For example c:\>start calc will launch windows calculator, but I have no idea where is located the executable calc.exe and ...
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How to add a enviroment variable without GUI [duplicate]
Is there a way how I can add a new environment variable specifically PATH without going into control panel etc.
Is there a file I can edit for this or a command line argument that can do the same ...
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How can you remove the need to type the full name of an .exe in cmd to run it? [duplicate]
OK, so you can run something like
start iexplore
in cmd and have it run internet explorer.
Is there a way to allow the same sort of behavior with something like, javac.exe (or some other utility ...