My CLI will open for a millisecond then immediately close. Any suggestions?

Hey @drv0684 :waving_hand: Could you provide a little more information here, please? Do you mean the Postman CLI? [image] Install the Postman CLI | Postman Docs Install the Postman CLI by following the instructions for your operating system below.

Yes. I am on a Windows machine. I go to search>Postman Cli>Open, it will open just for a split second and then immediately close.

It’s a command line tool, if you open a new terminal on your machine and run the command: postman --version Do you see the current version returned?

[image] danny-dainton: postman --version I get this - 1.24.2, which does not appear to be the newest verstion.

I ran this in my cmd npm install -g postman-cli It is still saying version 1.24.2

That’s the latest version of the Postman CLI. Are you looking to do something with the CLI? Running Collections in a terminal or a CI/CD pipeline?

If you’re seeing a response from the version command, it looks like you’re good to go. :trophy: You can run a Collection: [image] Run a collection using the Postman CLI | Postman Docs Use the Postman CLI to manually run collections to test the functionality of your API. …

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drv0684 (David Vowels) November 25, 2025, 4:03pm 8

I was wanting to experiment with it, yes.

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