# Unable to start gatling from cli **URL:** \ **Category:** Gatling (Open-Source)\ **Created:** [July 29, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427 "2015-07-29T10:13:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mario\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mario\_Mann](https://community.gatling.io/u/Mario_Mann)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/1 "2015-07-29T10:13:51Z")
Hello, I have download the gatling bundle (zip) from [gatling.io](http://gatling.io) - version 2.1.7 I can start the recorder, with $GATLING\_HOME/bin/recorder.sh But I **can not** start gatling with $GATLING\_HOME/bin/gatling.sh Output: ---
**Author:** ![slandelle](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.gatling.io/slandelle/32/4_2.png) [@slandelle](https://community.gatling.io/u/slandelle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/2 "2015-07-29T10:30:32Z")
I suspect you’re actually running on Windows and use some shell emulator such as Cygwin, where the find command is buggy (gatling.sh line 40). Am I guessing right? ---
**Author:** ![Mario\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mario\_Mann](https://community.gatling.io/u/Mario_Mann)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/3 "2015-07-29T10:52:00Z")
Hello Stéphane, thanks for your response. No, you are not guessing right. I use Ubuntu 14.04 as OS and the find command produced following output: mma@notebookmma:~/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7$ find /home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib -maxdepth 1 -name “\*.jar” -type f -exec printf :{} ‘;’ :/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/boon-0.33.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_redisclient\_2.11-2.14.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_t-digest-3.0.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/jzlib-1.1.3.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_bcpkix-jdk15on-1.52.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_bcprov-jdk15on-1.52.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_jackson-databind-2.6.0-rc1.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/gatling-metrics-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/gatling-jms-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_gatling-metrics-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_logback-classic-1.1.3.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_scala-swing\_2.11-1.0.2.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_scala-xml\_2.11-1.0.4.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_scala-library-2.11.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/Saxon-HE-9.6.0-5.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_logback-core-1.1.3.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/scala-swing\_2.11-1.0.2.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_jzlib-1.1.3.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/async-http-client-1.9.30.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/jsonpath\_2.11-0.6.4.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/jackson-databind-2.6.0-rc1.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/gatling-core-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/scala-logging\_2.11-3.1.0.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/scala-xml\_2.11-1.0.4.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_scala-parser-combinators\_2.11-1.0.4.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_scopt\_2.11-3.3.0.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/scala-reflect-2.11.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_slf4j-api-1.7.12.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_Saxon-HE-9.6.0-5.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_scala-logging\_2.11-3.1.0.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/gatling-http-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/gatling-jdbc-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/gatling-app-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_gatling-http-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/jodd-log-3.6.6.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/logback-core-1.1.3.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_config-1.2.1.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/gatling-charts-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/netty-3.10.4.Final.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_fastring\_2.11-0.2.4.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_threetenbp-1.2.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/opencsv-2.3.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_gatling-charts-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/jodd-core-3.6.6.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_jsonpath\_2.11-0.6.4.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_gatling-core-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/scala-library-2.11.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_async-http-client-1.9.30.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/jackson-annotations-2.6.0-rc1.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/gatling-charts-highcharts-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_jodd-core-3.6.6.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_gatling-redis-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_scala-compiler-2.11.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.4.2.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/akka-actor\_2.11-2.3.12.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatling-charts-highcharts-bundle-2.1.7/lib/.\_gatling-recorder-2.1.7.jar:/home/mma/gatling/gatlin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**Author:** ![slandelle](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.gatling.io/slandelle/32/4_2.png) [@slandelle](https://community.gatling.io/u/slandelle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/4 "2015-07-29T11:18:41Z")
The issue comes from all those “.\_” files that mess us with file discovery. You’re probably connected from a Mac to a remote shared directory (smb and such) and OSX created those so Finder could display icons and such. Delete them. I created an issue: [https://github.com/gatling/gatling/issues/2779](https://github.com/gatling/gatling/issues/2779) ---
**Author:** ![Mario\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mario\_Mann](https://community.gatling.io/u/Mario_Mann)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/5 "2015-07-29T12:26:40Z")
You are the hero of my day, thank you so much! Yes, you are right. I downloaded the zip file with a Mac and copied it to Ubuntu. After delete the “.\_” files it works fine for me! ---
**Author:** ![slandelle](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.gatling.io/slandelle/32/4_2.png) [@slandelle](https://community.gatling.io/u/slandelle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/6 "2015-07-29T12:28:17Z")
You’re welcome. Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![Sivananda\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Sivananda\_G](https://community.gatling.io/u/Sivananda_G)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/7 "2019-07-05T15:44:00Z")
getting below issue in ubuntu after executing the below command in terminal. $GATLING\_HOME/bin/gatling.sh bash: /bin/gatling.sh: No such file or directory ---
**Author:** ![Maruf\_Aytekin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Maruf\_Aytekin](https://community.gatling.io/u/Maruf_Aytekin)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/8 "2019-07-05T17:59:23Z")
It seems GATLING\_HOME environment var is not set. Maruf ---
**Author:** ![Sivananda\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Sivananda\_G](https://community.gatling.io/u/Sivananda_G)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 5:30am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/9 "2019-07-08T05:30:04Z")
HOw to set the GATLING\_HOME environment var. ---
**Author:** ![Maruf\_Aytekin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Maruf\_Aytekin](https://community.gatling.io/u/Maruf_Aytekin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/unable-to-start-gatling-from-cli/2427/10 "2019-07-08T20:40:39Z")
Depends on how you run Gatling. For example, we set it in gatling.sh script located in the bin directory as follows: OLDDIR=`pwd` BIN\_DIR=`dirname $0` cd “${BIN\_DIR}/…” && DEFAULT\_GATLING\_HOME=`pwd` && cd “${OLDDIR}” GATLING\_HOME="${GATLING\_HOME:=${DEFAULT\_GATLING\_HOME}}" export GATLING\_HOME echo “[INFO] GATLING\_HOME is set to ${GATLING\_HOME}” Regards, Maruf