Different os.Getenv("PATH") results from shell and double-click executable - linux

In my Go program I call os.Getenv("PATH") on Linux (Debian) and I get different results when running the program from within the shell or when double-clicking the executable icon in my file browser or on my desktop.
I have edited my ~/.profile to include the go binary in the PATH like so:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
as suggested the Getting Started Go instrutions.
When I run my os.Getenv("PATH") program from the shell it outputs:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/go/bin
but when I run it by double-clicking the executable file it outputs:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
This suggests that double-clicking an icon will not initialize the variables with the profile commands. How can I now get the PATH that I want, i.e. including the additional directories, from my Go program?

It depends on what PATH you want.
Your program gets environment variables from the context it was executed from.
You need to modify your PATH variable for your system to "know" about executables provided with the Go release. And you usually don't need 'usr/local/go/bin' PATH when you already have a compiled binary file.

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jGRASP wedge: could not execute python3

I am trying to use jGrasp to run python3 for debugging purposes, but it is throwing the error below when I try to run my program I have downloaded python3 and I made sure it works in the terminal, but for some reason it is not working in jGrasp. It might have something to do with the PATH but I don't know what location I should add for jGrasp to be able to execute it properly.
The Python path should end with "bin", not "bin/python3". Paths need to be directories that contain executable files, not the executable files themselves. Whether you have added this path in jGRASP only, or at the OS level, you need to change it.

stackdump is not created if exe is not run from cygwin terminal

I have an application which is compiled in cygwin. The exe crashes once in a while. If exe is run from cygwin terminal a stackdump file is created. If exe is copied to another folder along with cygwin1.dll and the exe crashes, then no stackdump file is created.
I want a stackdump file to be created even if the exe is run not from cygwin terminal.
How can this be achieved?
When you start a cygwin executable from windows, or a command prompt, the CYGWIN environment variable is usually not set. The shortcut or batch file which starts the cygwin terminal sometimes sets this variable. One of the options that can be set by this variable determines what program is called by windows when the application crashes. The /bin/dumper.exe program generates the stackdump you want.
To get around your problem, I always set the CYGWIN variable from the control panel, computer properties, advances system settings, environment variables, user variables. (Win7 - YMMV). E.g. CYGWIN=error_start=d:\cygwin64\bin\dumper.exe
See The CYGWIN Environment variable for more information.

Cannot run Swift under Ubuntu after closing the terminal

I am trying to run the Swift compiler under Ubuntu. I followed this tutorial: https://itsfoss.com/use-swift-linux/ and everything seemed to work fine. I was able to run swift under Ubuntu.
However, when I closed the terminal, I was not able to run Swift anymore. The program was not found until I installed it again. I could not find any answers to this question as there aren't many people running Swift under Ubuntu.
It's not uninstalled, you just don't have the environment variables set up anymore, so Bash can't find the path to Swift. You can change that by exporting the appropriate environment variables in your .bashrc file.
When you followed the tutorial, you ran the following command:
export PATH=path_to_swift_usr_bin:$PATH
This command adds the path to the swift binary to your PATH environment variable. The PATH variable holds a list of places where Ubuntu will look for programs to run from the command-line. So if the Swift executable is not in one of the places listed in the PATH, your terminal will never find it.
There is a file in your home folder (the folder ~, which is an abbreviation for /home/username, where username is your username) named .bashrc, which runs whenever you open a new terminal window. If you need an environment variable to be available whenever you open the terminal, you should add the export line for that variable to your .bashrc.
In this case, your .basrhc should contain the same line above.
The important thing to remember is that your environment variables are not preserved between command-line sessions, so if you want to have an environment variable available every time you use the command-line, it needs to be defined in your .bashrc.

cygwin binary exec format error

I have a script file that I was given to run in windows using Cygwin. When I try to use this file I get the following error
-bash: /sigdet/filename: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error.
sigdet is the folder within the Cygwin directory that I have the script. Rawdata is the name of the directory with the raw data files that the script is supposed to analyze.
To try and solve this, I have changed the file permissions, I have checked to make sure that it is on a 64 bit machine and the script appears to have compiled on a 64-bit machine. After these steps, I don't know what else the problem could be. Here are the commands I've entered:
I first changed the directory like so:
$ cd /sigdet/
Then I ran the script that is suppsed to work:
$ /sigdet/filename -i rawdata
Does the script file need to have an extension in windows? I've tried changing it to a .sh extension with no luck. I'm told that it just works on other windows machines just how it is.
Thanks to anyone that can help with this.
Your file is not an executable. It most probably contains ELF executable which is designed for Linux operating system, or it's corrupt.
If your file was a shell script, or in fact anything that contained plain text, you'd get different errors (such as, "expected command name" or "unknown command: XYZ" etc.)
Scripts are not supposed to have file extensions, like any executables. On the other hand, they should have shebangs: small text located in the first line that tells the system the path to the interpreter. For example, a Python executable script might be named whatever and have #!/usr/bin/python3 or similar in the first line. When you run it through ./whatever in the shell, it'll look for python3 in /usr/bin and run your file like this: /usr/bin/python3 ./whatever. (In fact, thanks to this you can also specify additional parameters that get passed to the interpreter.)
There is also a chance that your script is valid, but it contains a shebang pointing to bad interpreter. If that is the case, then most likely the path is correct, otherwise you'd get /whatever/interpreter: bad interpreter: no such file or directory error or similar. But then, all the other points apply to the interpreter (which is just another executable...)
If the script and/or interpreter was meant to be executed on Windows or Cygwin at least, it should either contain aforementioned shebang (#!/path in the first name) or it should be Windows executable (in which case the file data should begin with MZ letters, you can inspect it in notepad.) If it isn't, it means the files you were given can't run on Cygwin.
Had this same problem. Added the following at the top of makefile:
export ARCH = CYGNUS
What happened during the make process is that Linux and Windows versions of the executables were created. You just have to use ./.exe versions.
In my case, I got the error when I used a wrong command to compile my C program. When I used the right command:
gcc myprog.c -o myprog.exe
the error was resolved.

Running node.js code just displays a node identifier

I have the following code in a file called server.js.
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (request, response) {
response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
response.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8124);
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');
I use the command prompt and naviage to the folder where the file recides and then the run the command
node server.js
But I don't get the expected output. Instead I get
The node identifier for {My Machine Name} is v2hrfnqaj.
Note: I already have node installed in my machine and it was working fine.
Was getting this when I was trying to run cordova commands. Steps to resolve:
Windows
In CMD prompt, type "where node". As Michael mentioned, this shows
you the likely culprit, that you have 2 nodejs EXEs installed on
your machine.
Navigate to Start > Computer > Right-click Properties > Advanced system settings
Under the Advanced tab, select Environment Variables
Under System variables, select "Path" variable
Find nodejs EXE, usually "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\"
Cut and paste this to the beginning of the "Path" variable. Ensure
the paths are separated by a ";"
Open a new CMD prompt and try cordova again
This happens when Harvest SCM is installed on your system. It has an executable with the name node.exe at <Program Files (x86)>\CA\SharedComponents\PEC\bin (where <Program Files (x86)> is your x86 program files folder). This path is present in your PATH variable before the path to Node.js's node.exe.
Update: You don't need the elaborate scheme listed in the old answer. You just have to open the Command Prompt and run:
C:\> nodevars
nodevars.bat is a small script that does essentially the same thing described below (but in a safer way). If you have node installed, this script should be in path. (If not make sure to add C:\Program Files\nodejs to your path. But make sure to append it in the end so Harvest SCM does not break).
Everything below is outdated, but I will leave it for the curious reader.
You can do either of following two things you can do to overcome this problem:
Remove <Program Files (x86)>\CA\SharedComponents\PEC\bin from PATH environment variable.
Add/move <Program Files (x86)>\nodejs to the beginning of the PATH environment variable (This is the currently accepted answer from djrpascu).
You can do better!
There are two problems with the above approaches:
You break Harvest SCM's functionality.
If you do not have elevated privileges to change PATH, you are out of options. (Thanks #Glats)
So I created this little batch file, and put it in a directory where I have several other personal scripts (this directory is in my PATH). Here's the gist for the script.
nodecmd.bat
#echo off
set path=%path:C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SharedComponents\PEC\bin;=%;C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs;
start %ComSpec%
Then the next time you want to run Node.js, instead of Command Prompt, you open the new script with "Run..." command.
Windows+R
nodecmd
A command prompt will appear. You can use this command prompt to run node without a hassle.
Explanation
This bit deletes the Harvest's executable's path from PATH variable:
%path:C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SharedComponents\PEC\bin;=%;
And this adds the Node.js's path:
set path=...;C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs;
The result is a string that contains the original PATH variable minus Harvest's path, plus Node's path. And it is set as PATH variable in the scope of current batch file.
Note: You might have to change the path's in the script to suit software installation folders in your system).
Next line, start %ComSpec% starts a Command Prompt. By this time, the PATH variabe is modified. With modified environment variables, you can run node within this new Command Prompt. The environment variable modification does not affect the rest of the system, making sure that Harvest SCM software runs without breaking.
Don't break your Harvest SCM by removing it from path. Try this one, open your windows command line (cmd) and then pass the following nodejs batch file so that it will set your command line to nodejs environment. Enjoy the node commands there.
C:> "C:\Program Files\nodejs\nodevars.bat"
You can also prioritize in the environments.
Steps:
Computer -> Right click -> Properties -> Advanced system settings -> Environment variables -> PATH(in system variables list) -> Edit -> Prioritize by moving up
This is old, but I ran into this same problem. Exact same message (with my machine name of course). The issue was that there was another node executable on the path, in C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SharedComponents\PEC\bin. I'm on a windows machine, so running where node showed the two conflicting "node" executables in the path.
To fix the problem, I just removed the CA directory from the PATH environment variable.
I faced the same problem and simply changed the the name of node.exe file from Harvest. This hasn't broken anything from Harvest and I can keep working with it.
Change the Harvest's command name to node_.exe:
ren "C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SharedComponents\PEC\bin\node.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SharedComponents\PEC\bin\node_.exe"
I think you're running the wrong node command.
Try locating or re-downloading your nodejs installation and add it to your path as the first directory. If you're running linux or unix you can try 'which node' to see what is being run.
Note that in some cases, the node.js executable is called nodejs so you may want to try
nodejs server.js as well
I used the node.js command prompt, instead of the windows default command prompt and it worked for me. Did not know why it did't work in the windows default command prompt.
I was also running with same issue - while defining the path for windows use below parameter
Windows:
set NODE_PATH=C:\nodejs
OR
Set the environment variable for nodejs
NODE_PATH=C:\nodejs
Path= C:\nodejs
(append the path contain this string “c:\nodejs”)

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