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P.P.S.: On a related note, I discovered how to run Windows Explorer (or its replacement) on the directory your CMD session is logged in to: start. P.S.: I just found out the hard way that you need to ensure the “Start in:” property of any shortcut you use in this fashion is blanked out, or your program will not start in the directory you invoke the shortcut from. I’m not a Windows expert though, and welcome a better or more standardized solution to this problem. Now by placing %HOMEPATH%\bin in my %PATH% and I can sublime via the command “sublime.lnk”.Įither of the above are the best way I know of giving access to various commands from around Windows’ filesystem from a CMD prompt. However, you can grant other usersaccess using the Computer ConfigurationWindows SettingsSecurity SettingsLocal PoliciesUser Rights. E.g., I created a shortcut named “sublime.lnk” under %HOMEPATH%/bin, pointing to “C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe”. By default, only administrators can create symbolic links.
#HOW TO CREATE LNK FILE WINDOWS 7 FULL#
Nice!Īs an alternative I found that PATHEXT need not be modified if I simply type in the full name of the shortcut, including the. lnk, I can execute the link with the simple command “sublime”. For example if my shortcut is named “sublime.lnk” and PATHEXT includes. lnk added to PATHEXT I can simply enter the name portion of the shortcut to run the command. lnk to your PATHEXT variable in order to do this. With Windows 7 I confirm that symlinks do not work, are simply ignored as reported in the original question.Īs Harry states in his comment, shortcuts do work, and to me are simpler and easier than writing a separate script for each new command I want to enable under CMD. What am I doing wrong? Am I misunderstanding symlinks in Windows? This is the approach I use in Linux all the time, but I’m new to Windows Cmd. No error message in the command prompt or anything. A new empty window should appear, but nothing happens. However, when I try to execute chrome with my new link, nothing happens. I know my PATH is set up correctly, b/c when I run > where chrome it finds my new symbolic link. That successfully creates a symbolic link for the files (says so in output, and upon examining with > dir). So I tried > mklink chrome.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" The Chrome executable is located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe I know I could add Chrome’s containing directory to my path ( set PATH=%PATH% ), but since I have a few executables I want to add, I’d rather make a new bin directory that contains symbolic links to the actual executables and just add that single directory to my PATH. My goal is to add a few executables to my PATH (for example, chrome), so that I can call > chromeįrom the command prompt and it will launch Chrome.