Path in computer file systems is in general the human-readable address of a filename or directory specifying a unique location in a file system, and expressed by a string of path components separated by a delimiter (most commonly the slash "/" or the backslash "\"). PATH (variable), is an ...
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Do I really need Web Platform Installer in my Path environment variable
I'm not sure how this got onto my path:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\
but it did, and now I want to know if I can safely remove it. Why is it there, and what, if any, negative ...
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rawtherapee : path to open picture in gimp
In Rawtherapee (RAW image manipulation app) what's the path to Edit the current image in external editor (gimp)?
I've tried: /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/MacOS/gimp-2.8 but doesn't work (of ...
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Where to store bash scripts that all users may execute on Debian?
I have many bash scripts on my server, that all users may use.
but it seems the location
/usr/local/sbin
is not the best place.
I don't want to use the home directory of the users, cause ...
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how do I add /usr/local/sbin to the PATH of a user? [duplicate]
if I type
echo $PATH
I only get
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
how can I add /usr/local/sbin to the path, so it is already there the next time?
(I use debian ...
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In Windows 7 where should Path be set by Programs?
What are the proper procedures for the setting and use of the environment variable PATH in Windows 7?
I have a Dell Desktop that defines 19 entries in the Path variable. These include 5 entries for ...
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How can I recover the Windows 7 PATH system variable? [duplicate]
I was installing GTK+ and the installer overwrote my path instead of appending to it. This is my developer machine at work, my path was full with all sorts of developer tools. What can I do to get it ...
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Define extra `$PATH` for either Passenger or nginx
I have a server with nginx and Passenger serving a Ruby on Rails app. It uses Bundler.
Somewhere in this stack, the $PATH gets set to /var/www/APPNAME/shared/bundle/ruby/1.8/bin/. This directory ...
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Delete endless file directory
I had a bug in my java app, which created a folder structure, which never ends..
So i have afolder structure like
C:/folder/folder/folder/folder/folder/.../...
Now I am not able to delete this ...
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Executable not found although in PATH
My $PATH is set to a lot of directories including ~/bin and ~/target/bin
I want to execute script.sh which is in ~/target/bin but I get the error bash: ~/bin/script.sh: No such file or directory
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Creating a system variable
I would like to get some suggestion regarding adding an entry to the PATH variable under System Variables.
Whenever I install a program on my windows machine, I end up adding the path to the program ...
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How to resolve conflicts with different apps relying on different PATH variables?
I have two programs that rely on some .dll files. (Wikidpad and Microsoft WebMatrix2.)
I was using WikidPad for a while without issue. After I installed WebMatrix2 (which uses IIS Express, I ...
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win-bash won't detect root drives?
I'm using the windows port of bash known as win-bash, and based on what it says about paths:
One important difference is the handling of drives: cygwin uses its
installation directory as root ...
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which program is really running?
I am running a self-compiled version on python2.7, --prefix=$HOME, so as not to interfere with the standard installation of python2.6 (on Ubuntu 10.04). Had some problem importing the ssl modules, ...
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Restore 'where' to PATH? [duplicate]
I'm trying to find out where programs are installed, but Windows can't find where!
Trace:
C:\Documents and Settings\apenneba>where java
'where' is not recognized as an internal or external ...
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I can no longer run ruby scripts from textmate
I used to have a setup where I could run ruby scripts directly from textmate, even if I used a set of gems and included them with require 'mygem'.
So I have a file ~/.tm_properties which enabled this ...
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How can I add a folder containing a semicolon to the Windows PATH?
I noticed that the semicolon ; is a valid character for Windows (NTFS) file and directory names.
The semicolon is, however, used as element delimiter for the PATH environment variable.
Say I have a ...
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Script with path in Filemaker Pro 12
I'm using OS X 10.6 & Filemaker Pro 12; I'd like to have a script in FM to automatically open a .pdf file from a container field using Preview (dumping the file on the desktop) but it has to be ...
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Which DLL is Windows using?
I am trying to run a program on my Windows 2000 machine that is installed in C:\Program Files\TradeLog. The program crashes with an "Invalid operation in GDI+ (Code: 1)" exception message. This ...
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I think I broke something in my registry
So this is a two part problem.
I was following directions trying to install some software and I misunderstood a poorly written segment of the installation instructions.
This led to me deleting my ...
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GitHub's password cache helper doesn't recognize git in path
I'm trying to set up the password caching utility that GitHub recommends for Windows 7 at the bottom of this page. When I run the installer, it tells me that it can't find GIT in my path environment ...
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How can I scp when path and / or filename to copy has spaces?
I have in a remote remote_host a file like this:
\home\user\path with spaces\filename with spaces.ext
And I want to scp it to current dir .. How can I do that?
Thanks!
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Notepad++ command to tweak document path and filename
In Notepad++ 5.8.6, is there a way to copy to the clipboard the current document's full path and filename after applying a regular expression replace?
For example, I can do Edit > Copy to Clipboard > ...
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Illustrator CS5: type handles move when adding a point on text path
I have some text on a straight 2 point path: the path is longer than the text so the start and end handles of the text sit well within the limits of the path. I want to reshape/bend the path, which ...
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Why can't Excel open a file when run from task scheduler?
I wrote a powershell script that opens an excel workbook and runs a macro. When I run that script from PS console, or even from command line using powershell.exe script.ps1, it jus works. When I set ...
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launching applications from the Windows command prompt?
Is there a Linux methodology to include .exe files symbolically to a location referenced by the %PATH%? The process seems trouble free on Linux, but when attempting to do similar actions via mklink on ...
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Why would the TEMP environment variable contain more than one path?
A colleague's %TEMP% environment variable has this value:
C:\Users\his.name\AppData\Local\Temp; C:\Program Files (x86)\MATLAB\MATLAB Compiler Runtime\v78\runtime\win32; C:\Program Files ...
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How to make scripts run from anywhere on OS X?
I've correctly added my scripts folder to my $PATH. But I still cannot run the scripts from anywhere by simply calling them. How do I achieve this?
Example. If I have ~/scripts/ in my path and in ...
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Where is my PATH env. var being redefined?
Since a couple of days ago my Ubuntu 12.04 installation is presenting some strange behavior, due to auto update probably, as I've not messing with any config:
1 - The system default encoding changed ...
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How to call certain program from any directory, from Command Prompt (Windows)
I am really sorry if this question is stupid or something, but how can I make a program (say vim editor) so that I can call it from any directory, even though it is not directly installed in that ...
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PATH for Windows 'run' dialog different from the Environment Variables' PATH [duplicate]
for example, if I type firefox in run dialog, it runs fine, but if I open cmd or cygwin shell to execute firefox, I get,
"Command not found"
I know how to export PATH variable, but I still ...
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chkdsk: setting a specific path is not working
I can set the drive (volume), but not directory path or file path. chkdsk (with /h) utility shows that I could set the optional parameter path and filename, but I get the following message instead.
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how is PATH set in Interix
When running emacs on Windows XP the path is set by the WINXP environmental variable path.
The path changes when Interix v3.5's csh is run from within emacs.
Normally path variables are set by a ...
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“start” and “The system cannot find the file”
I am trying to use the command start
For example, I have the programs Firefox and HxD installed on my system
C:\Users\Steven>forfiles -s -p "C:\Program Files (x86)" -m firefox.exe
"firefox.exe"
...
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Two versions of Ruby installed, how to fix paths/alias?
I'm trying to set up an EC2 instance on AWS. This instance already has Ruby running, v.1.8.7.
[ec2-user@ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx /]$ which -a ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
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looking for XP/Win7 path variable cleanup (Environment Variable)
I've just noticed that the path variable of my office XP box contains duplicates and triplets of the same old directories, some of them even obsolete.
Do you know of a way (a tool) to clean the path ...
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MacPorts Vim prefixes $PATH with /etc/paths
For some reason it seems that vim (installed through macports: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Feb 25 2013 01:56:26) prefixes my $PATH variable with the /etc/paths files.
Although I ...
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PowerShell in conEmu has different PATH from cmd
Why does PowerShell on conEmu have a different PATH from cmd?
I see this when I do openssl version in PowerShell I see that 2007 version and in cmd I see the 2013 version....
This is my startup ...
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upgrade to openssl 1.0.1e on windows
I know I am missing a crucial step, but I can't figure out what to do
I have openssl OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
I downloaded openssl for win32 and installed it in c:\openssl
I added c:\openssl\bin ...
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Starting a program in a bat file using the Path variable
I often use a command line application. Its path is defined in the environment options, so in the PATH variable. When I manually launch the console and if I type the program name, it's launched.
For ...
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Not able to access a Windows 8 binary from the command prompt even when PATH is set properly
I am currently seeing a weird problem in Windows 8 installed on my laptop. I have copied "apache maven" to the C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation folder. I have set the JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME ...
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Unix set path not working
I installed a package s2cmd on my unix machine. It works fine when I run it from the folder it resides in, but it did not run from other locations so I set the PATH using the command export ...
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Why does window's Run run program from wrong path?
I have python 3.3 and 2.7 installed on my computer.
Lately I decided to run python 2.7 more form Run, when previously python 3.3 was used. ("python" auto-completes in Run)
In order to do it, I ...
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pkg-config on cygwin will not find the gsl package
I am trying to use the Cygwin method for re-learning C using 21st Century C book by Ben Klemens. I've installed Cygwin and have been using apt-cyg to install the packages mentioned in the book. The ...
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How do I make a relative link in windows with a space in the path [duplicate]
I want to make a relative link in Windows 7 to a path that contains a space character.
Making a relative link without a space in the path works as follows (explained here):
%windir%\system32\cmd.exe ...
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Path variable broken Windows 7?
I have been trying to compile and execute both Python 2.7 and Java programs on my Windows 7 computer. Both of these have been installed, and I am attempting to run my programs off of the command line. ...
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Windows XP SP3 to Mac mini server Mountain Lion
I am replacing an old 1997 windows server with a mac mini server running ML server edition. I would like to store my old windows files on the new server as well as our MS Access database. Will it be ...
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Delete/Clean PATH variables on Mountain Lion
I tried to install PhoneGap on my osx and accidentally set a bunch of PATH variables wrong, so now it looks like this:
...
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Start program from relative path
In Linux when I have a folder structure like :
~/projects
~/bin
I could go to projects and start whatever program is in bin with
../bin/binary_to_launch
In Windows when I try the same thing, I ...
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Installing Emacs in custom directory (on OS X)
Fed up with emacs22 that came with Xcode, I set out to upgrade to emacs24. I do not want to overwrite the system defaults, and do not want to mess up with it either, so I tried to install emacs in a ...
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Disable XP SP2+’s FQP Requirement?
I finally gave in and decided to update XP to SP3. One of the things that bothers me about SP2+ and which caused me to put it off for so long is that it requires fully-qualified paths for file-types ...
