How to run .sh on Windows Command Prompt? How to run .sh on Windows Command Prompt? bash bash

How to run .sh on Windows Command Prompt?


Install GIT. During installation of GIT, add GIT Bash to windows context menu by selecting its option. After installation right click in your folder select GIT Bash Here (see attached pic) and use your sh command like for example:

sh test.sh

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The error message indicates that you have not installed bash, or it is not in your PATH.

The top Google hit is http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/ but you also need to understand that most Bash scripts expect a Unix-like environment; so just installing Bash is probably unlikely to allow you to run a script you found on the net, unless it was specifically designed for this particular usage scenario. The usual solution to that is https://www.cygwin.com/ but there are many possible alternatives, depending on what exactly it is that you want to accomplish.

If Windows is not central to your usage scenario, installing a free OS (perhaps virtualized) might be the simplest way forward.

The second error message is due to the fact that Windows nominally accepts forward slash as a directory separator, but in this context, it is being interpreted as a switch separator. In other words, Windows parses your command line as app /build /build.sh (or, to paraphrase with Unix option conventions, app --build --build.sh). You could try app\build\build.sh but it is unlikely to work, because of the circumstances outlined above.


The most common way to run a .sh file is using the sh command:

C:\>sh my-script-test.sh 

other good option is installing CygWin

in Windows the home is located in:

C:\cygwin64\home\[user]

for example i execute my my-script-test.sh file using the bash command as:

jorgesys@INT024P ~$ bash /home/[user]/my-script-test.sh