"No such file or directory": problem with gitbash in Windows 10

[stevenkkim]

I'm using vs code on Windows 10, but I'm using gitbash as my integrated terminal instead of the Windows shell.

When using either the "Open in Integrated Terminal" or "Open Root in Integrated Terminal" commands, the directory is not found because the directory slashes are backslashes (Windows-style) instead of forward slashes (bash-style)

Upon opening the terminal, the following output is shown:

cd c:\Users\Steven\Dev\selenium.js
bash: cd: c:UsersStevenDevselenium.js: No such file or directory

If I type manually type "cd c:/Users/Steven/Dev/selenium.js" in the integrated terminal, then the cd command works.

[stevenkkim]

FYI, it looks like the extension terminal-here (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Tyriar.vscode-terminal-here) works in gitbash in the integrated terminal on Windows. If you look at the code here:

https://github.com/Tyriar/vscode-terminal-here/blob/master/src/extension.ts

the relevant code is this:

        switch(kindOfShell(vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('terminal'))) {
            case "wslbash":
                // c:\workspace\foo to /mnt/c/workspace/foo
                dir = dir.replace(/(\w):/, '/mnt/$1').replace(/\\/g, '/')
                break;
            case "cmd":
                // send 1st two characters (drive letter and colon) to the terminal
                // so that drive letter is updated before running cd
                terminal.sendText(dir.slice(0,2));
        }

        terminal.sendText(`cd "${dir}"`);

[stevenkkim]

Sorry, I just noticed one more thing... when I use the terminal-here extension, the terminal command says:

cd "c:\Users\Steven\Dev\selenium.js"

which works with the backslashes. So fixing this bug may be as simple as enclosing the directory path in double quotes.

[fabiospampinato]

Thanks for reporting the issue, I don't really use Windows nor git bash so I'm not too surprised to see these incompatibilities. I'll address the problem when I'll have the time.

Ps. I think you should use a "real" terminal instead, like bash or zsh, running under WSL.

[stevenkkim]

Thanks Fabio. I did try WSL a while ago when it first came out, but there were too many bugs at the time. Also, sharing files between the Windows filesystem and Linux subsystem was a pain. It's possible to symlink Linux to Windows, but not vice versa. But maybe they have fixed those issues since. Git bash, while not "real bash" does a surprisingly good job emulating bash on Windows and is very lightweight. It's the best terminal shell on Windows in my opinion. WSL and Cygwin were too heavy and complicated. And I certainly don't want to learn Powershell.

[fabiospampinato]

I'm sorry but I didn't have the time to try to fix this, if anyone could help with this I'd appreciate it.

[neelam0026]

@stevenkkim I am facing the same issue as you have and I am new user for this github so kindly help regarding the same issue faced by me

[neelam0026]

Issue : "No such file or directory": problem with gitbash in Windows 10 #2 if you find the solutions for it please let me know.

[ahull002]

Sorry, I just noticed one more thing... when I use the terminal-here extension, the terminal command says:

cd "c:\Users\Steven\Dev\selenium.js"

which works with the backslashes. So fixing this bug may be as simple as enclosing the directory path in double quotes.

Hi, this also worked for me as well: wrapping the dir in double-quotes somehow worked! Thank you so much for your help!

[Fabricoholic]

Hi !

I had the same problem. It worked with the double quotes too. No clue why aha but wanted to say it works!

[ahad-alselmi]

Sorry, I just noticed one more thing... when I use the terminal-here extension, the terminal command says:

cd "c:\Users\Steven\Dev\selenium.js"

which works with the backslashes. So fixing this bug may be as simple as enclosing the directory path in double quotes.

yes your suggestions work with me your are very smart thank you.
for git team the problem still until 2021

[Himanshunitrr]

There are other extensions which use backslash. The git team must solve this bug asap.

[TheGreat-Gazoo]

For me it was an issue with OneDrive in the directory. When I removed OneDrive from the directory it worked.

[Shoaib-Cheema]

Sorry, I just noticed one more thing... when I use the terminal-here extension, the terminal command says:

cd "c:\Users\Steven\Dev\selenium.js"

which works with the backslashes. So fixing this bug may be as simple as enclosing the directory path in double quotes.

Ahhhhhh you are a legend man!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You saved me what ive been tryna do for soooooo long

[RiyaadHossain]

I am facing the same issue
it's so disappointing.

[pasangeek]

may be its associate with another file sharing platform in my case desktop is sync wit the one drive so i add file path as this cd "C:\Users\pasan\OneDrive"

[developerasun]

Same problem here.

When directory exists,

git bash fails to change directory.

[shubhamsurve96]

you saved me bro..
god bless you

[abaynew-guadie]

my error is this how to fix it??
bash: /home/daygeek/betty/main.rb: No such file or directory

[jaimeserranodev]

Hi,
When you put that code after cd the address has to be with quotes " ". Try with this line:
cd "/home/daygeek/betty/main.rb:"

[forodo]

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[jens-ofzo]

So what worked for me here is typing it out by hand. When I copied the directory it was missing the ":" between my "c" directory and the "/" which is what made it mess up. I believe @stevenkkim wrote a similar response

[MamontshengS]

I tried so many different ways still says No such file or directory

[SandraLarsen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdzKzlp66sQ
Opening git bash from the folder solved this issue for me

[444novaaa]

For me I realized I actually had the contents that I wanted inside of an extra folder, so go to your files and make sure it's exactly where you think it is

[fabiospampinato]

I've just rewritten the extension, can anybody check if this is fixed in v2?

I think it should be because I'm passing the cwd to vscode directly, rather than executing cd command. Which should also speed things up slightly and declutter the terminal.

[euginekoyo]

am getting this error

HP@HACKBOOTH245 MINGW64 ~
$ cd "c:\xampp\htdoc\app.com\src\App.js"
bash: cd: c:\xampp\htdoc\app.com\src\App.js: No such file or directory

[fabiospampinato]

@euginekoyo It looks like you are on v1, you'd need to updated to v2 to see this fixed. You might need to upgrade vscode to be able to upgrade to v2.