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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 environment variable specifying a list of directories where executable programs are located.

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How I get my command prompt to show just the name of the folder I'm in (not the whole path))

In a command prompt window (terminal), how can I get my prompt to be just the current folder? e.g. prompt $p $g gives: C:\Users\Robin > But I want it to just show: Robin > UPDATE: As @...
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How to copy source of web-pages with absolute URL in source instead of relative paths?

Summary How I can to copy source of web page with absolute URL in source instead of relative paths? Preferable — Firefox, but any others solutions would be nice too. Examples Page: http://www....
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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 ...
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Illustrator SVG how can I use only absolute coordinates

I cant anywhere find how to set in Illustrator that I want to use SVG in ONLY ABSOLUTE coordinates. I found a lot of stuff about Inkscape as easy as this: Change the preferences for 'SVG Output > ...
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Does the order of the directories listed in the Windows PATH variable affect system performance in any meaningful way?

I've noticed that when programs add their directory to the PATH environmental variable, most append it to the end but a few add it at the beginning, before the windows directory. So it made me wonder, ...
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"Filename or extension too long" for move, but it isn't

I'd appreciate some insight as this is driving me nuts. I have a folder on a network share: \\host.example.com\Share\Path\Container1\Folder I am trying to move that folder to a new location on the ...
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Would a longer PATH environment variable slow down a system?

In Windows 7, will a long system PATH environment variable slow down the system in any noticeable/tangible way? My system PATH variable is 45-entries deep. I have an i7 930 @ 4.2GHz, but out of ...
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forslash as the default path separator in windows?

Since windows now accept the forslash "/" as a path separator in addition to its default backslash path separator, so that both c:\windows and c:/windows are valid paths (though the former is ...
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How can I move the database location of Evernote successfully?

I am currently on Evernote 4.5.x and lost quite some data because I didn't notice that the crashing Evernote deleted recently created notes due to space limitations in my TC container. I am not happy. ...
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Windows Equivalent to symlinking executables into PATH

I want to have a certain executable available in my %PATH% under Windows. The catch here is that the tool is in a directory where there are a lot of other executables which I don't want to have in my ...
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How can I open this GoPro folder using the command line? (Windows 10)

When I plug in my GoPro camera via USB, I have to click through four folders before I get to the folder where the video files are: This PC\HERO8 BLACK\GoPro MTP Client Disk Volume\DCIM\100GOPRO ...
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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'conda' joblib

I globally conda installed the joblib module using a Mac OS X, Mojave, with anaconda3: conda install -c anaconda joblib After the installation conda --version returns: File "/Users/julia/...
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VSCode doesn't open Files imported with absolute PATH

I have a React Application. I am importing some components, and I want to click ALT+File name in the import in order to navigate to it.(Linux Ubuntu). Mapped it to Alt instead of CTRL. In files with ...
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Windows 10 Explorer: How to show full path in titlebar, but only currently opened folder in taskbar?

Please read my question in full. In the file explorer in Windows 10, I know you can set the text displayed in its titlebar to either the current folder or the full path. This setting applies also to ...
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Running Python script in Scripts from different working directory in Windows

I have pip installed a library (intelhex) with Python 3.5.1, which also places a few scripts in the Scripts subdirectory of the Python installation: >dir "%pythonpath%"\hex2* Volume in drive C is ...
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Shortening Path variable

Currently, my PATH variable is way too long. It seems to have been populated by different programs upon installation. I have pasted my PATH variable below. Could you please tell me if it is safe to ...
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user path not merged with system path

On my Windows 7 machine, for some reason the user path is not merged with the system path variable when I start a new command prompt. I have seen other related questions answered by a reference to a ...
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How to convert absolute paths to relative paths in .ini file?

Adviant | Deluxe | 32bit ----------------------- Forms How to set up the relative path for Deluxe and Forms? Below is the .ini file. Adviant, Deluxe, ...
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What does java.exe do in Windows\System32

I found that java.exe file is located in Windows\System32 directory and has precedence over my selected java in Program Files directory (due to PATH components order). I have tried deleting this ...
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My PATH environment variable got lost during an installation this morning Windows 11

I noticed that commands weren't working in my command prompt. I tried rebooting but still the same problem. Eventually after looking in this forum, I found out that my PATH variable was effectively ...
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Windows exe program work in safe mode but error in normal (access, permissions error)

I have installed the program "VMS" needed to configure the IP camera. When I run shortcut, program does not reacting at all. But after several attempts to run, an error appears. Windows ...
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Why does $PATH come in two different formats in mintty on Windows?

I'm trying to use node to do a small inline string manipulation of the current PATH in a bash script (in mintty.exe on a GitHub Windows Action Runner), but it's not working as expected. I've recreated ...
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What is this pip config output?

I have to install and configure Python 3.8.10 on a Windows 7 machine and I'm getting this output for pip config -v list: C:\Users\Username>pip config -v list For variant 'global', will try loading '...
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How to edit $PATH on MacOS Catalina (Zsh)?

I open terminal and use echo $PATH I get back: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin/ I'm confused because my .zshrc, .zsh, .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .profile all have ...
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Use PATH variables from windows on windows subsystem linux 2

As you can see in the title I want to use the variables in the PATH of my Windows 10 inside Windows Subsystem Linux 2, I've installed node, composer, and Xammp in Windows 10, but when I try to run any ...
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List of everything installed. Not just those with uninstallers

I've been trying for some time to get a list of everything installed on Window 10. Neither WMIC nor powershell return a complete list. For example, Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\...
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Best way to generate ASCII tree visualization of a directory with long file paths?

I've enabled the Enable Win32 long paths template in the Local Group Policy Editor. I have a directory with several nested directories that have long file path names. I'm trying to generate an ASCII ...
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How to make iPhone show up as a proper drive instead of "This PC"

I'm using WinMerge to compare files from a PC folder to a folder on my iPhone. WinMerge requires the file path for each location, so grabbing my desktop folder location is no issue: C:\Users\Trevor\...
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Using Fish + NVM + Sublime results in commands not found

I'm using Fish shell/omf, NVM (https://github.com/derekstavis/plugin-nvm), and Sublime Text 3. I'm trying to use a build system to run nodemon (which I installed with npm -g install nodemon). nodemon ...
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Cygwin command to set user path when logging in ssh

I've setup a sshd as a service on windows 7 with cygwin, choosing to create cyg_server to run it. Now I can login to my machine via SSH with my normal username, everything works, except what depends ...
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Add SONAR_RUNNER_HOME correctly to PATH

I'm trying to use sonar-runner in my Mac. So i download SonarScanner and follow the instruction here : http://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SONAR/Analyzing+with+SonarQube+Scanner When i try to run " ...
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Batch populate JPEG IPTC keyword from csv or txt file

I have 50,000-plus JPG files which I've tagged for easy lookup by user-selected keywords. The database which matches image files with their keywords is proprietary and utility-specific. I want to ...
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How can I figure out what's stepping on my PATH variable?

In a nutshell: my PATH environment variable is sometimes only available from an elevated session, other times it's fine; how can I find out what's corrupting it for non-admin sessions and prevent it ...
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Cant physically type in variable value text box when editing PATH environment variable

I am quite lost with this and hope someone faces similar problem and fixed it. But it's as simple as not being able to type in the provided text box for changing variables values in the PATH. I can ...
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Running Java program from PowerShell starts a 64-bit JVM: From .bat file, starts 32-bit JVM

I am trying to start a Java application from a batch file, with a 2G heap size, like so: java -Xmx2G -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -jar cauldron-1.7.10-1.1236.05.212-server.jar nogui When running this ...
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How do I set the PATH variable for a service that's running as a non-login user?

I'm running a GitLab server on a Linux machine using Nginx as a Webserver. Several processes (started either manually as root with /etc/init.d/foo start or automatically as sub-processes) run as ...
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Modifying the System Path variable from cmd

I am trying to modify my system Path value. I need this as I am doing an upgrade of the S/W and the users need to have access to the old and new system. I provide them with a toggle button which will ...
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Can I extract Winrar-SFX file to two directories

How can I extract Winrar-SFX file to two different Paths ????
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Mac OS X libraries path setup

In OSX, by default, (apple) libs and components live in /usr. Since I use MacPorts and compile my own modules, I have the following path setup: /usr -> default Apple /usr/local -> My own ...
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My path keeps getting truncated and I have to restart explorer.exe to fix it

I have a mysterious problem on my machine. Periodically I find that my path on Windows 7 machine gets set to %SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Chocolatey\bin;C:\GnuWin\bin;C:\...
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libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

UPDATE: after qsub many times I noticed that when the hostname is opt### it appears to work, but for other nodes in which the hostname is of different topology int###, it does not. I've discussed ...
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OS X 10.6: How do I temporarily change $PATH for ZSH?

I'd like to create a script that sets the $PATH to a set of directories chosen by me (thus ignoring the predefined paths, such as /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin and so on...) followed by launching ZSH. ...
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Remap paths used in Windows Movie Maker projects

I need to rebuild path structures for old Windows Movie Maker projects under a new Windows 7 install. The problem is that those projects refer to files of a certain file path that can't be rebuiltd ...
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Workaround with paths in Vista

I have a .exe running in my Windows XP PC. This .exe needs a file in the same directory to run and has no problem finding it in Windows XP. But, in Windows Vista (I tried this in several machines and ...
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Pathname or word too long in Cshell

I am using cshell. And I know that there is a limit of 1024 character while setting path. But I have many path variables which I need to set. So, it is exceeding 1024 characters and I am getting an ...
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Tangled up file paths trying to take Desktop off of OneDrive

So, I don’t like that my desktop folder is in OneDrive. It messed with the performance of my old PC, and I was able to change where the desktop folder lived on my old one without issue. I now have a ...
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Linux Mint $PATH, environment global change

I'm using the latest Mint (21.1, 64bit AMD). Apologies, this is probably more of a Stupor-user question than a Superuser one, but with much web-based searching I have come up with a plethora of ...
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Where does Chrome store the URLs for web apps (desktop shortcuts that open in a new window)?

I am using Windows 10 (21H2) and I have a semi-old chrome shortcut for a site, that I set up to open in a new window (so that it works like an app - create shortcut -> open in new window). Problem ...
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node.js app symlink relative path resolution

I have a node.js application that lays under /opt/myapp. There is a folder called "plugins" (/opt/myapp/plugins). In the plugins folder (oh wonder) are stored plugins that are loaded on ...
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How to download and install MATLAB in Ubuntu with no GUI?

I am working inside a docker container, and the only interface I have is the terminal. I used pip install matlab and it does install the version 0.1, but when I write matlab --version, the message is ...
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