Git Bash doesn t see my PATH

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When I use Git Bash  on Windows   I cannot run any executable without specifying its full path  although it is located in a folder which is in my PATH variable  Looks like bash doesn t recognize it  Why  Can I fix it

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I can confirm that restarting the system will make sure that the PATH set in the environment variable in windows is picked up by git and there is no other automatic way

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For those of you who have tried all the above mentioned methods including Windows system env  variables   bashrc   bashprofile  etc   AND can see the correct path in  echo  PATH      I may have a solution for you   suppress the errors using exec 2   dev null   My script runs fine but was throwing  command not found  or  No directory found  errors even though  as far as I can tell  the paths were flush   So  if you suppress those errors  might have to also add  set  e    than it works properly

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I meet this problem when I try to use mingw to compile the xgboost lib in Win10  Finally I found the solution    Create a file named as  bashrc in your home directory  usually the C  Users username   Then add the path to it  Remember to use quotes if your path contains blank  and remember to use  c  instead of C    For example   PATH  PATH   c Program Files mingw-w64 x86 64-7 2 0-posix-seh-rt v5-rev1 mingw64 bin

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I know it is an old question but there s two type of environment variables  The one owned with User and the one system wide  Depending how do you open git bash  with user privilege or with administrator privilege  the environment variable PATH used can be from you User variables or from System variables  See below    as said in a previous answer  check with the command env grep PATH to see which one you are using and update your variable accordingly  BTW  no need to reboot the system  Just close and reopen the git bash

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While you are installing Git  you can select the option shown below  it ll help you to set the path automatically       Its worked out for me

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For me the most convenient was to  1  Create directory  bin  in the root of C  drive 2  Add  C  bin   to PATH in  My Computer -  Properties -  Environemtal Variables

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In case your git-bash s PATH presents but not latest and you don t want a reboot but regenerate your PATHs  you can try the following   Close all cmd exe  powershell exe  and git-bash exe and reopen one cmd exe window from the Start Menu or Desktop context  If you changed system-wide PATH  you may also need to open one privileged cmd window  Open Git bash from Windows Explorer context menu and see if the PATH env is updated  Please note that the terminal in IntelliJ IDEA is probably a login shell or some other kind of magic  so PATH in it may won t change until you restart IDEA  If that does not work  you may need to close all Windows Explorer process as well and retry the steps above   Note  This doesn t work with all Windows versions  and open cmd exe anywhere other than the Start Menu or Desktop context menu may not work  tested with my 4 computers and 3 of them works  I didn t figure out why this works  but since the PATH environment variable is generated automatically when I login and logout  I d not to mess up that variable with variable concatenation

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Restart the computer after has added new value to PATH

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In my case It happened while installing heroku cli and git bash  Here is what i did to work   got to this location  C  Users  lt username here gt  AppData Local        and delete the file in my case heroku folder  So I deleded folder and run cmd  It is working

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In Windows 7 Path Environment Variables I just add at the end of System Variable path     C  Program Files Git bin  and it works now

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On Windows 10  just uninstall git and install it again  It will set the environment variable automatically for you   I had removed the environment variable by mistake and I couldn t use git inside my IDE  Reinstalling git fixed this issue

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I ve run into a stupid mistake on my part  I had a systems wide and a user variable path set for my golang workspace on my windows 10 machine  When I removed the redundant systems variable pathway and logged off and back on  I was able to call  exe files in bash and call go env with success    Although OP has been answered this is another problem that could keep bash from seeing your pathways  I just tested bash again with this problem and it does seem to give a conflict of some sort that blocks bash from following either of the paths

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Maybe bash doesn t see your Windows path  Type env grep PATH in bash to confirm what path it sees

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Old question but it can help someone else   I ve changed my PATH user wide  after that I ve just logoff and login again   That is it  git bash loaded the new PATH value correctly

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It seems the root cause here is Git Bash not able to always parse the variable  USERPROFILE  correctly  Instead of making it relative to C  Users   it gets the value C  Windows System 32 systemprofile  After changing this to a fully qualified address  it Works  and even if I set it back afterwards  Git Bash still has the correct PATH for some reason

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Got it  As a Windows user  I m used to type executable names without extensions  In my case  I wanted to execute a file called cup bat  In a Windows shell  typing cup would be enough  Bash doesn t work this way  it wants the full name  Typing cup bat solved the problem   I wasn t able to run the file though  since apparently bash couldn t understand its contents   One more reason to switch to posh-git    Thanks  Tom for pointing me to the right direction

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Create a file in C  Users USERNAME which is called config bashrc  containing   PATH  PATH  c Program  Files    x86   Application  with  space   Now move the file on the command line to the correct location   mv config bashrc  bashrc

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Create a User variable named Path and add as value  Path   from what I noticed Git Bash only sees User Variables and not System Variables  By doing the mentioned procedure you ll expose your System Variable in the User Variables

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Don t escape     special characters when editing adding to your  PATH variable  For example  an application directory in program files would look like  PATH  PATH  c Program Files  x86  random application  Don t do this  PATH  PATH  c Program  Files     x86    random application   Hope this helps

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Following  Daniel s comment and thanks to  Tom s answer  I found out that Git bash was indeed using the PATH but not the latest paths I recently installed  To work around this problem  I added a file in my home  windows  directory named    bashrc  and the content as follow   PATH  PATH  c Go bin  because I was installing Go and this path contained the executable go exe Now Git bash was able to recognize the command   go  Perhaps just a system reboot would have been enough in my case  but I m happy that this solution work in any case

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