How to open a .exe file using an abbreviation in CMD

I want to start an .EXE file using one command, an abbreviation or alias you could say.
For example, I want to open Far Manager using an alias, I have at first to CD into the path, which is c:UsersmyUserdesktopfarfar.exe.
I know about the set "alias=myCommand param1 param2" but the problem is I want a single command to open up the application, for example Atom and VSCode have this feature, if I type atom or code in cmd it will open up. so I want to set a single command to open up the application without having to changing the directory into it at first and then use the start command.

c:UsersmyUserdesktopfarfar.exe

set "alias=myCommand param1 param2"

start

4 Answers
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One way to do this is to add the folder path for the executable to your PATH environment variable.

PATH

In Windows 7, 8 and 10, you can:

Alternatively (also for older versions of Windows):

In Windows 10 (and possibly 8?), you will see an edit window that makes it easy to add a path. In prior editions of Windows, you will see a text box edit window. Add the folder path to the end, preceded by a semi-colon: ;c:UsersmyUserdesktopfarfar.exe

;c:UsersmyUserdesktopfarfar.exe

The simplest solution would be to put your code into a .bat file,
then add its folder into the PATH environment variable (or store the file into
a folder that is already in the PATH).

.bat

To avoid seeing the commands execute, start the file with an @echo off line.

@echo off

One more option is to use doskey, which gives a macro function in cmd:-

doskey

cmd

doskey MacroName=pushd c:UsersmyUserdesktopfar $T start far.exe $ popd


You can add this command to a cmd start-up file.

cmd

Yet another option is to set the directory and program name in a program shortcut (eg far.lnk) which you can create in a directory already in your path. Such files can be called direct from cmd.

far.lnk

cmd

If you want to be able to start a command without having to specify the full path, you have to include the directory in your PATH variable. You can see the current PATH with

PATH

PATH

echo %PATH%


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