title: Running jmeter .jmx tests locally using windows command line giving illegal argument exception
body: <p>Using below command to run the tests on windows cmd - Is there any initialization required in jmeter for doing so.</p>
  
  <p>jmeter -n -t C:/Users/meiyer/Desktop/LOAD TOOLS/jmeter samples/50users10count.jmx</p>
  
  <p>stacktrace - </p>
  
  <pre><code>2016/08/29 15:17:18 INFO  - jmeter.util.JMeterUtils: Setting Locale to en_US 
  2016/08/29 15:17:18 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: Loading user properties from:   
  C:\Users\meiyer\Documents\apache-jmeter-3.0\apache-jmeter-
  3.0\bin\user.properties 
  2016/08/29 15:17:18 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: Loading system properties from:    
  C:\Users\meiyer\Documents\apache-jmeter-3.0\apache-jmeter-
  3.0\bin\system.properties 
  2016/08/29 15:17:18 FATAL - jmeter.JMeter: An error occurred:  
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown arg: TOOLS/jmeter
  at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.initializeProperties(JMeter.java:746)
  at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.start(JMeter.java:385)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
  at org.apache.jmeter.NewDriver.main(NewDriver.java:259)
  </code></pre>