How to add Octave CLI to the system PATH variable in Windows?

I installed Octave 4 (from here) which has both a GUI and a CLI. However, Octave doesn't seem to be added to the PATH variable, so typing octave or octave-cli into the command line doesn't do anything. Is there a way to fix that (without adding all the other executables in Octave's bin directory to PATH as well)?

I use Windows 10.

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How do I add Octave (CLI) to system path variable (Windows 10)?

Is there a way to fix that (without adding all the other executables in Octave's bin directory to PATH as well).

You don't add .exe files to the PATH, you add directories.

So you should add C:\Program Files\Octave\bin (or whatever your installation is) to PATH.

See How do I set system environment variables in Windows 10? for instructions on how to modify envronment variables (like PATH).

You could open a command window using a Desktop shortcut similar to

%comspec% /k "C:\Program Files\Octave\MyCmd.bat"

In script MyCmd.bat, you can set the PATH to the Octave bin directory. Only the directory has to be included in the PATH, not every bin file.