Shell-local on Windows

[SurferL]

Running Packer on MacOS -> to setup a Windows machine

I have Cygwin installed on my Windows machine and would like to use that for a "shell-local" command, rather than the default command. Is this possible?

[Rickard von Essen]

Shell-local would run on your host, ie your macOS machine.

On 23 November 2017 at 15:13, SurferL <lawrenc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Running Packer on MacOS -> to setup a Windows machine

I have Cygwin installed on my Windows machine and would like to use that for a "shell-local" command, rather than the default command. Is this possible?

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[SurferL]

Oops, I mean windows-shell... 

On Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:23:28 UTC, Rickard von Essen wrote:

Shell-local would run on your host, ie your macOS machine.

On 23 November 2017 at 15:13, SurferL <lawrenc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Running Packer on MacOS -> to setup a Windows machine

I have Cygwin installed on my Windows machine and would like to use that for a "shell-local" command, rather than the default command. Is this possible?

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[Rickard von Essen]

Haven't used Windows for ten years but I think it is as simple as 

C:\cygwin\bin\bash testit.sh

in your windows-shell, see

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15736898/running-a-shell-script-through-cygwin-on-windows

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[SurferL]

Thanks! I'll have a go :) 

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

I think are 2 ways.

The one that Rickard says is your script runs an script using bash, you can use the file provider to upload the file in first hand.

Or as I understand your question, you would like to use that bash/shell instead of the default.

Then use:

execute_command (string) - The command to use to execute the script. By default this is {{ .Vars }}"{{ .Path }}". The value of this is treated as template engine. There are two available variables: Path, which is the path to the script to run, and Vars, which is the list of environment_vars, if configured.

like

execute_command: "C:\cygwin\bin\bash {{ .Path }}",

?

or similar.

Alvaro.