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问题

超级用户读者Toby Blunt想知道Windows中是否有（Linux）bin目录的等效目录：

Is there an equivalent for Linux’s bin directory in Windows? If so, how can I access it from the command prompt?

什么是Windows中（Linux）bin目录的等价物？

答案

超级用户黑客帮我们找到了答案：

There is actually nothing special about /bin on Unix/Linux at all. It is just the location where executable files and scripts (which are not actually binary files) are placed by convention. It is included in the PATH environment variable by default for all users.

As Ryan says (comments one and two), the \Windows\System32 directory on Windows is also in PATH for all Windows users (and, even if it is not, the program loader in Windows will search there anyhow).

You can easily create your own equivalent of /bin on Windows. To make it system-wide, place it somewhere like the root of the file system (such as C:\bin or under an already-restricted location like \Windows\System32\bin), and add it to the PATH environment variable for all users.

For a per-user location, create the directory in your own profile (%USERPROFILE%\bin) and add it to your account’s PATH environment variable. Windows combines environment variables with the same name, so anything in the machine PATH variable is also added to any user’s PATH, but not the other way around.

Of course, you will have to add files, scripts, shortcuts, and symlinks to your /bin directory yourself. Windows installers do not expect such a thing and will not put files there automatically the way that Linux installers usually do.

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