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Dot Is Not Recognized as An Internal or External Command

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I encountered the following error message when running a Windows command !./osqueryi.exe .tables in the IPython shell.

In[15] >>> !./osqueryi.exe .tables
‘.’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

It turns out to be that the issue is caused by using / (instead of \) in a Windows shell. As is known to all, a Windows path uses \ (instead of /) to delimit directories. So the fix is very simple, which is to replace / to \.

In[16] >>> !.\osqueryi.exe .tables