sage from command line on windows 10

[Doris Behrendt]

Hi list,

after searching the web for answers without success, I ask here:

What do I have to do to include sage into my environment variables to use sage from command line?

I found this here: https://ask.sagemath.org/question/49071/running-sage-89-from-command-line-windows/

and changed to 9.0 and >Program Files< instead of 8.9 and >Programme<.

C:\Program Files\SageMath 9.0\runtime\bin\bash -l C:/Program Files/SageMath 9.0/runtime/opt/sagemath-9.0/sage

But I could not add this to my path using the windows gui for path editing. I guess because there are two commands not one?

Can anyone help? I'm not so experienced with setting and editing path stuff.

I need this for automating sagetex for arara, by the way.

TIA

doris

[Dima Pasechnik]

Hi Doris,

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 8:56 AM 'Doris Behrendt' via sage-devel
<sage-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> after searching the web for answers without success, I ask here:
>
>
> What do I have to do to include sage into my environment variables to use sage from command line?
>
>
> I found this here: https://ask.sagemath.org/question/49071/running-sage-89-from-command-line-windows/
>
> and changed to 9.0 and >Program Files< instead of 8.9 and >Programme<.
>
> C:\Program Files\SageMath 9.0\runtime\bin\bash -l C:/Program Files/SageMath 9.0/runtime/opt/sagemath-9.0/sage
>
>
> But I could not add this to my path using the windows gui for path editing. I guess because there are two commands not one?

The easiest would be to create a Windows .bat (say, call it
runsage.bat) file which consists of one line

C:\Program Files\SageMath 9.0\runtime\bin\bash -l C:/Program
Files/SageMath 9.0/runtime/opt/sagemath-9.0/sage

and put it somewhere in your Windows path. Then typing runsage (hmm,
or runsage.bat) should launch sage.


HTH
Dima

>
> Can anyone help? I'm not so experienced with setting and editing path stuff.
>
> I need this for automating sagetex for arara, by the way.
>
>
> TIA
>
> doris
>

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[E. Madison Bray]

Out of curiosity why do you want to do this? Sage is a UNIX-based
program and not really designed to work well in the Windows cmd shell,
as you can tell from the ugly colors alone. I also can't promise that
various things like keyboard commands will work well. Is there some
other underlying goal? If so, perhaps there is a better way to achieve
that goal.

I'm not saying you *shouldn't* do it if it's something you really
want. But it isn't technically supported either.