cygwin bash: java: command not found

Question

So I had to re-install my system. I installed Cygwin in C:\cygwin\bin

And I used the batch file that worked on my previous installation: "start_cygwin.bat"

@echo off  
C:  
chdir C:\cygwin\bin  
bash -c "cd /cygdrive/e/apache-solr-3.5.0/example/;java -Dsolr.solr.home="./example-DIH/solr/" -jar start.jar"

But after running this command:

bash -c "cd /cygdrive/e/apache-solr-3.5.0/example/;java -Dsolr.solr.home="./example-DIH/solr/" -jar start.jar"

I get the error:

bash: java: command not found

I thought it had something to do with java, but I installed the java jdk 6.27 (which worked fine before) and when I type "java" in my command prompt I see a list of possible java commands.

Yogendra Singh · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-14 19:47:11Z

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Its not able to locate your java.exe file.

To resolve the issue, you have two options:

Add Java installed folder in your PATH
Use full path of java.exe in the above command i.e. in place of java, use /home/../jdk.../bin/java.

One of the tow options, should help resolving your issue.

answered Oct 14, 2012 at 19:47

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Peter Lawrey Over a year ago

+1 it could be in your CMD's path but not for bash. Try running java under bash and see what you get. If that doesn't work, use the full path to java instead.

Keith Thompson Over a year ago

On my system (Cygwin under Windows 7), type java says java is /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/java; it's a Windows installation, not part of Cygwin. I have /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32 in my Cygwin $PATH. Note that Cygwin's $PATH is (at least partly) independent of the Windows %PATH%.

Viorel Mirea · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-26 12:32:14Z

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If it doesn't work using the path to java/bin then you can try to
- create symbolic link: ln -s /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/jre1.8.0_102/bin/java.exe /usr/bin/java
- create an alias: alias java="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/jre1.8.0_102/bin/java.exe"
- add the java path to the paths: export JAVA_HOME="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/jre1.8.0_102"
export PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin"

edited Aug 26, 2016 at 12:32

answered Aug 26, 2016 at 12:25

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