I want to create an alias, which will take file name, get its path and open it by gvim.
Something like this:
alias gg "gvim `which \`"
usage:
> gg some_file_in_remote_path
But I cannot make it work in csh.
Can someone help please
The command "which" gets a full path of of shell commands.
It does not find the full path of of every file you have in your system.
The command you are looking for is "find", although searching the entire file system could be time consuming. Perhaps install "locate" and use that instead of find. Even then you would have to decide in your script what to do when multiple files have the same name.
I have a large supporting file placed in another location outside my test Working directory.
Working Directory = C:/cmake/src/Test
Large Binary file to be parsed = C:/Largefiles/Binary.fft
I dont want to copy Binary.fft to C:/cmake/src/Test
set(working_dir "C:/cmake/src/Test")
set(Large_Binary "C:/Largefiles/")
Is it possible to do specify two working directories for a test like this?
set_tests_properties(Test_Large PROPERTIES ENVIRONMENT PATH=${BIN_DIR} WORKING_DIRECTORY ${working_dir }${Large_Binary })
Or is there a better way to approach this situation?
I know how to add values to the path variable, so my question is not how to use it.
Rather, I want to know how it works under the hood. When you type in the name of a program to execute, how does the system make use of PATH to find the matching program? How does it know when it finds a match?
for example...
when you set c:\python27\ into your environment path...
and you goto cmd, you are at c:\ and you type python
cmd knows to check the environment path which it will find c:\python27\ among others. then it looks for the command in each path listed in your environment paths
then executes the command if it finds it
simply the env path tells where to look for the command if it is not in the current directory
I am trying to set up some path using environment variable.
I added an environment variable "MAVEN_HOME" with the value "C:\maven".
Then in the path I added "%MAVEN_HOME%\bin;...rest".
When I type "echo $MAVEN_HOME%" I get the correct "C:\maven" printed on the screen.
But when I type "mvn" which is a batch file in the "bin" directory, it can't find it.
So, I manually added the entire path in PATH.
"C:\maven\bin;...rest"
and it was able to find "mvn" and execute it.
Could someone help me what I did wrong?
Check if there is a space character between the previous path and the next:
Incorrect:
c:\path1; c:\Maven\bin\; c:\path2\
Correct:
c:\path1;c:\Maven\bin\;c:\path2\
I had exactly the same problem, to solve it, you can do one of two things:
Put all variables in System Variables instead of User and add the ones you want to PATH
Or
Put all variables in User Variables, and create or edit the PATH variables in User Variable, not In System. The Path variables in System don't expand the User Variables.
If the above are all correct, but the problem is still present, you need to check the system Registry, in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment, to make sure the "PATH" key type is REG_EXPAND_SZ (not REG_SZ).
My issue turned out to be embarrassingly simple:
Restart command prompt and the new variables should update
Things like having %PATH% or spaces between items in your path will break it. Be warned.
Yes, windows paths that include spaces will cause errors. For example an application added this to the front of the system %PATH% variable definition:
C:\Program Files (x86)\WebEx\Productivity Tools;C:\Sybase\IQ-16_0\Bin64;
which caused all of the paths in %PATH% to not be set in the cmd window.
My solution is to demarcate the extended path variable in double quotes where needed:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\WebEx\Productivity Tools";C:\Sybase\IQ-16_0\Bin64;
The spaces are therefore ignored and the full path variable is parsed properly.
%M2% and %JAVA_HOME% need to be added to a PATH variable in the USER variables, not the SYSTEM variables.
If there is any error at all in the PATH windows will silently disregard it. Things like having %PATH% or spaces between items in your path will break it. Be warned
Also worth making sure you're using the command prompt as an administrator - the system lock on my work machine meant that the standard cmd just reported mvn could not be found when typing
mvn --version
To use click 'start > all programs > accessories', right-click on 'command prompt' and select 'run as administrator'.
To address this problem, I have used setx command which try to set user level variables.
I used below...
setx JAVA_HOME "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_92"
setx PATH %JAVA_HOME%\bin
NOTE: Windows try to append provided variable value to existing variable value. So no need to give extra %PATH%... something like %JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH%
If the PATH value would be too long after your user's PATH variable has been concatenated onto the environment PATH variable, Windows will silently fail to concatenate the user PATH variable.
This can easily happen after new software is installed and adds something to PATH, thereby breaking existing installed software. Windows fail!
The best fix is to edit one of the PATH variables in the Control Panel and remove entries you don't need. Then open a new CMD window and see if all entries are shown in "echo %PATH%".
I had this problem in Windows 10 and it seemed to be solved after I closed "explorer.exe" in the Task Manager.
In my Windows 7.
// not working for me
D:\php\php-7.2.6-nts\php.exe
// works fine
D:\php\php-7.2.6-nts
I had the same problem, I fixed it by removing PATHEXT from user variable. It must only exist in System variable with .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
Also remove the variable from user to system and only include that path on user variable
Copy the value of path to notepad and check if this corresponds with the echo %path% in terminal window and make changes if needed. Then delete the old path value and paste the notepad value back in.
I assume some invisible character entered there by some installation corrupted the path value.
Make sure both your System and User paths are set correctly.
On a Windows 7 machine I cannot read any registry values that contain a semicolon.
For example if you have 7-zip, running the following
SET(MYPATH [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\7-Zip;Path])
MESSAGE("MYPATH = ${MYPATH}")
results in
MYPATH = [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\7-Zip;Path]
instead of the actual path as per the following thread. I think cmake support for registry paths that contain ";" are broken on Windows 7. Can somebody confirm this? Is there any work-around?
According to the wiki, you can't use SET to view the value of a registry key. The registry value is only read when you do some cache operation on it. For example, the following should output the path you want:
GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(MYPATH "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\7-Zip;Path]"
ABSOLUTE CACHE)
MESSAGE("MYPATH = ${MYPATH}")