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Asked: 2026-05-14T20:39:09+00:00

I’d like to put the yuicompressor jar file in a single folder so that

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I’d like to put the yuicompressor jar file in a single folder so that I can call

java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar ...

from anywhere on my system, with cygwin. For bash files I use I simply put them in a common folder, and added the folder’s path to my windows user’s PATH environment variable and the bash commands were found in cygwin.

when I echo $PATH I see the folder I put the yuicompressor jar into listed in the $PATH..

But when I try java -jar yuicompressor-x.y.z.jar myfile.js -o myfile-min.js (for example) I get the following error message:

Unable to access jarfile yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar

Even when I try providing an absolute path to the jarfile I get the same error message..

How can I do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The PATH environment variable is a list of directories the shell will search through in an attempt to run a command.

    java.exe will not search the directories on the PATH environment variable to try and locate the archive you are attempting to run. So running java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar from any directory other than the one containing the archive would be expected to fail.

    What is the full command you are attempting when providing an absolute path?

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