Solana Can't find devnet.json

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I'm following this article as a practice. And stuck with

cat .config/solana/devnet.json

I realize that windows OS doesn't have cat so I tried

type ~/.config/solana/devnet.json

that result in

The syntax of the command is incorrect.

so I try again with

type "~/.config/solana/devnet.json"

and this time, it leads to

The system cannot find the file specified.

It's kind of surprise me so I browse that directory(C:\Users\my-name\.config\solana) and found devnet.json is truly not there.

My questions are where could this file be? Or which step I might do wrong so the file was not generated? I check the result message of each step, things look fine...

solana windows-10
4 Answers

It turns out since I didn't change the working directory so the devnet.json is saved in C:\Windows\System32\~\.config\solana

user_19736510

Got the same problem It seems that there is no devnet.json file created but the devnet wallet works successfully

user_170162470

you may download git bash on your windows machine and can simply use cat and all bash commands after?

user_195997520

You're following Linux instructions which are not 100% compatible with your Windows OS. ~ is alias for home directory in Linux and it doesn't work in Windows where ~ is a normal char. That led to you the initial confusion. Also other differences like type / cat. On Windows use full path to your home directory (usually something like C:\Users..., etc.). So your key-gen command can look like something like this

solana-keygen new --outfile C:/Users/hsiao/keys/devnet.json

Then you can use

solana config --keypair C:/Users/hsiao/keys/devnet.json

and be happy ever after!

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