git command not found in bash script on windows machine

Question

I'm trying to write a script for some of basic git operations, in that getting an issue git status: command not found

I'm trying it on:
- Windows machine
- bash script
- running script from git bash
- git is installed at C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin

Below is the sample script I'm trying with:

path_to_git='/c/Program Files/Git/mingw64/bin/'
PATH=$PATH:$path_to_git
echo $PATH
export PATH

res=$("git status")
echo $res

Please guide me through, thanks

Benjamin W. · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-12 16:03:05Z

1

Quoting like you did makes the shell look for a command called git status instead of git with an argument status – drop the double quotes:

res=$(git status)

And then don't echo that without quotes, or it'll remove all linebreaks:

echo "$res"

For scripting, consider using

git status --porcelain

instead (see documentation), with an easier-to-parse output format that is versioned.

answered Mar 12, 2020 at 16:03

Benjamin W.

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thanks for your answer. I didn't know this echo "$res" about linebreaks.