Change Windows shell in Jenkins (from Cygwin to Git Bash/msys)

Question

I have a Windows 7 and a Windows Server 2012 slave with the Jenkins agent and Cygwin already set up. I want to avoid Cygwin and just use the Git Bash shell that comes with Git f

Answer 1

Install git-bash

Ensure the Git\bin folder (i.e.: C:\Program Files\Git\bin) is in the global search path, in order for Jenkins to find sh.exe

to update path in windows use following command

setx path "%path%;C:\Program Files\Git\bin"

or have a look here https://www.windows-commandline.com/set-path-command-line/

to make nohup available for Jenkins

• mklink "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\nohup.exe" "C:\Program Files\git\usr\bin\nohup.exe"

• mklink "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\msys-2.0.dll" "C:\Program Files\git\usr\bin\msys-2.0.dll"

• mklink "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\msys-iconv-2.dll" "C:\Program Files\git\usr\bin\msys-iconv-2.dll"

• mklink "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\msys-intl-8.dll" "C:\Program Files\git\usr\bin\msys-intl-8.dll"

That's it now you can run shell commands

Have fun