aws cli in cygwin - how to clean up differences in windows and cygwin style paths

Question

I suspect this is my ineptitude in getting path variables set right, but I\'m at a loss.

I\'ve installed the aws cli using pip in cygwin.

pip install aws         


        

Answer 1

Thanks to matzeri in the comments above for steering me to the fix.

The problem was that cygwin had it's own python version... but not pip... so when I used "pip install" in cygwin to install awscli, it was the windows/anaconda pip. the solution didn't involve fixing paths, as matzeri pointed out, it would never resolve that with paths... it was these two lines...

python -m ensurepip  # install a cygwin pip
pip install awscli   # to install awscli for cygwin