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Can not run commands within command line, PowerShell or other terminals
Issue: when I run commands in any terminal (Powershell, command prompt, VSCode terminal, etc.)
doesn't execute.
What is supposed to happen: Run a command, for example, "help", and return the default help message
What happens: Executing "help", returns the error (Powershell) "
more.com : The term 'more.com' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling
of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:9 char:19
+ } else { $input | more.com }
+ ~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (more.com:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
"
Harm_Veenstra I've Solved it, as it was missing the following Paths in "Paths" In system variables:
%SystemRoot%\system32 %SystemRoot% %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\ %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\OpenSSH\It did not contain the paths, so they could not execute the commands, thank you for suggesting that the issue could have arisen from environment variables
Correct:
Correct "path"Incorrect:
Incorrect "path"
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- The problem is already fixed after adding the paths
- Do you have c:\windows\system32\more.com on your system? But you have this issue with, for example, "get-childitem c:\" too?
Harm_Veenstra, I can run certain commands such as "cd", "dir", and "get-childitem c:\", however, most of the useful commands, such as ipconfig are nonfunctional and return a similar error when executed, I do get around this this however by creating a .bat file that changes the dir to C:\Windows\System32 where the commands are stored.
One of the possible causes is that there is an issue with system variables, as in the past, I could not run the "jar", but the solution for me was that the PATH was not properly defined but I highly doubt that this could be the root of the issue.Any update?
