Run named.exe in a subdirectory in windows cmd

Question

I feel stupid asking about it, but here. On linux / mac, you can run the executable in the shell by simply writing its name. Can you do something like this on the windows command line?

Example: I am in the dir directory. I want to run the a.exe file in dir/subdir without changing the directory to subdir or write subdir/a.exe . Is it possible?

Answer 1

It is possible. All you have to do is make sure that the directory where a.exe is located is included in path .

Answer 2

You can use one of the following actions:

• "subdir/a.exe"
• subdir\a.exe

Answer 3

Do you mean that you do not need double quotes "subdir/a.exe" ? In any case, if you go to the backslash, it will work; i.e.

subdir\a.exe