I am trying to access git bash, but nothing happens (black screen). I used git bash many times during September and October, but when I tried today it did this. What can I do to solve this?
Thanks.
Have you had Cygwin installed? I was having this exact issue, then I found out I still had a "etc" and "bin" directories in my user folder on Windows. After removing these (As I didn't want Cygwin) GitBash worked for me again :)
Perhaps as a temporary solution you could navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin using the windows cmd line and execute git.exe. For me Im able to perform gitbash functions, just not with the lovely unix like syntax and interface.
Also if you include gitbash to be written to your PATH during install, the win cmd line still works.
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I really like coding in bash, but there used to be many limitations of bash functionality in Windows. Though now there are many benefits to the bash windows users now rather than how it was pre windows 10. However, with all of the improvements, there is one thing that I feel leaves to be desired for me. The default behavior of the double-click of .sh files never really was able to do anything in windows, the .sh file extension isn't even available in the "choose default apps by file type" section of the settings. I had a desire to be able to change the default action for .sh files but neglected it and shook it off for a while, but this link finally gave me hope.
Before Ubuntu terminal and the addition of Windows subsystem for Linux, there was really no way to access bash terminal on Windows without a VM. Now with the addition of Windows Terminal which combines Microsoft Azure Terminal, Command Prompt, Powershell, and Ubuntu, it is really awesome for people like me, but despite the new awesome additions to windows allowing further integration of Linux terminal into Windows, even being able to edit the C: drive with Ubuntu.
I am sure there is a way to allow double-click of .sh files to open in windows terminal Ubuntu, but I don't know how. This question helped me on my journey to figure out how to do it and helped me make the default .bat file behavior change to Windows terminal, but I still have come to an enpass where I truly believe that it is not possible. So here is where I go when I have given up, the magical land of Stack Overflow :)
Attempts
So far I have looked into the "Choose default apps by file extension" section of settings and could not find .sh in there nor could I find it in any of the default apps sections of normal settings.
After I couldn't find anything about .sh in settings, I looked into the registry and looked for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and looked for sh or anything bash file related in HCR alone, HCR\*\shell, HCR\*\shellx, and HCR\*\Openwithlist and could not find anything.
I then tried to do ftype, but I could not find how to use ftype with .sh. I tried doing ftype .sh="C:\Users\asian\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe" -p "Ubuntu" "%1" %* but i got the error "File type '.sh' not found or no open command associated with it."
I Also tried just clicking the .sh file so it brings up the "How do you want to open this file" menu and went to Windows Terminal but it opened the bash file in powershell with the error [error 0x800700c1 when launching `C:\Users\asian\Desktop\test.sh']
These where everything I could think of and none of it was working. Help and pointers are appreciated. Thank you!
I suggest you install the Git for Windows package, as it comes with a light-weight bash environment. This is likely to be able to be in the list of available apps when right-click -> Properties on a .sh or .bash file and say Open With and click the Change button next to Open With.
Other options are Cygwin or WSL for a 95% pure Linux environment on Windows.
I am following this tutorial where i have to run this command in order to start the zookeeper server.
./bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties
But the problem is this command is not working properly. I found that .sh file is bash file that required cygwin. I have installed it and then run command like this
C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe ./bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties
But it is showing:
I can confirm that in bin directory the file is exsits. what i am doing wrong?
Here is my directory snapshot from where i running the command:
Note: I have successfully tested bin/windows zookeeper bat file but i want to run it through .sh file as the kafka security tutorial which i am following using this.
From your screenshot, I conclude that you are using Cygwin. So, please add the cygwin tag to your question.
As you can see from the error message, the command dirname is not found by bash, so assuming that your Cygwin installation is not broken, I assume that the PATH is not set correctly; in your setup, dirname.exe should be in C:/cygwin64/bin (please verify this).
Your usage of bash.exe is a bit unusual in that you run it directly from a Windows cmd prompt. The more common way would be to use it from the 'Cygwin Terminal', which you get created a Windows-link to, when installing Cygwin, or to use another suitable Terminal program; I'm using for instance mintty for this task (also available via the Cygwin installer).
Having said this, it is possible to run bash.exe in the way you are doing it, but you then have to ensure, that at least the PATH is set up correctly. One possibility to do this, is to add C:\cygwin64\bin to your Windows PATH, but this has the drawback, that some commands have the same name in the Windows world and in Cygwin, though they serve a completely different purpose, and this will bite you sooner or later. Another problem is that at some point, you will rely on other bash specific setups besides the PATH.
A better way to accomplish your goal is IMO to ensure, that the system wide bash-initialization files are sourced by bash. If I have to run the script from a Windows cmd prompt, I would run it by
C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --login YOURSCRIPT
This will read the file (in your setup) C:\cygwin64\etc\profile before running YOURSCRIPT, so you can check, that the PATH is correctly set there, by looking at this file. In a default installation, this should be the case.
After having read this file, it will try to read the file .bash_profile in your Cygwin HOME directory, so if you need additional settings for your (non-interactive) bash-scripts, create this file and put your settings there.
I am a bit surprised, but I can't run matlab by the terminal of my Mac.
I am trying the command
/Applications/MATLAB_R2015b.app/bin/matlab
but I get the error
-bash: matlab: command not found
Listing the contenents of the folder /Applications/MATLAB_R2015b.app/bin/ I can see the word matlab which is supposed to be the executable.
I don't know what's happening.
Try
cd /Applications/MATLAB_R2015b.app/bin/
and then
./matlab
If that, hopefully, works, then you may have a path or environment issue with your O/S which is preventing your call to /Applications/MATLAB_R2015b.app/bin/matlab from working.
add the installation directory to the PATH environment, for example:
export PATH=/Applications/MATLAB_R2017b.app/bin/:$PATH
then launch Matlab with
matlab
in your terminal
It works fine, however, if you used the default folder it would be something like export PATH=/usr/local/MATLAB/R2021b/bin/:$PATH
Additionally, remember about activating matlab before via running the activate_matlab.sh script located in the installation folder
Not long ago I found out a precious thing which comes with the git install:
http://git-scm.com/download/win
From git's bin folder on the command line you have almost a linux console available. Commands like curl, touch, kill, ssh, grep and lots of others. The problem is that when you move out of the bin folder, of course they become unavailable. Is it possible somehow to make these commands available globally from the windows command line?
Use this one Git Shell from Github
Has some cool git features in it, much better than default windows command prompt.
Few good points are:
Tab completion
Prompt for current branch
Colors highlighting
You simply add the full path to you "bin" folder (e.g. c:\git\bin\) into Windows "PATH" environmental variable.
As opposed to repeating how to do that here, plenty of help on the web.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm
Note: you may need to close and re-open the command window you are in if you add through the control panel.
I get the error from mr. developer: "Couldn't find 'git' executable on your PATH."
I'm running msysgit on Windows 7 and I believe I have the latest Mr. Developer. Any ideas?
You could copy git.exe to git with no file extension ,then the problem could be solved. The clue is found by the link provided by Chis.
For my case, I use the portable version of msysgit since I wanted full control of the set up and installation.
In README.portable, you'll read the following
How to start using PortableGit
If you are comfortable with a Unix-like shell, just launch
'git-bash.bat'.
If not, just launch 'git-cmd.bat'.
Alternatively, you can execute these commands to modify the %path%
variable temporarily:
set gitdir=c:\portablegit
set path=%gitdir%\cmd;%path%
Adjust the 'gitdir' according to your setup. As long as you do not
close the command window, you can now simply type "git" or "gitk" to
really call "c:\portablegit\cmd\git.cmd" or
"c:\portablegit\cmd\gitk.cmd".
Personally, I run the shell by invoking git-cmd.bat so that I'll gain access on unix commands, like ls, mv, etc.
Make sure your System PATH includes your msysgit directory, assuming you've installed and built it correctly.