Running scp returns an error `/usr/bin/ssh: No such file or directory`

[c33s]

needing rsync on windows made me search for rsync solutions for windows.

there is

• https://itefix.net/cwrsync
• http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/

i tested both and i have gone with cwrsync. the problem with cwrsync is, that it is not compatible with the ssh binary bundled with git for windows.

dup() in/out/err failed
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [sender=3.1.2]

by deleting the ssh.exe shipped with git for windows, the problem was solved. cwrsync correctly uses its own ssh binary.

but now i have the problem, that scp bundled with gitlab for windows don't look for ssh.exe in the $PATH, it looks like it has the path hardcoded. i get the following error:

/usr/bin/ssh: No such file or directory

is there a way to tell scp to use the ssh provided in the $PATH?

$ which ssh
/c/home/bin/cwRsync/ssh

[c33s]

retested rsync from msys:

rsync --dry-run --checksum --verbose --chmod=ugo=rwX --progress --exclude .git --recursive --perms --times --group --owner hieradata/customer/company-name/ ../company-data/company-name/hiera

leads to the following error:

rsync: pipe: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(122) [sender=3.1.2]

[dscho]

retested rsync from msys

Do you mean old MSys instead of MSYS2? If so: that's too old to even try to support.

You can download the MSYS2 version of rsync.exe from the Git repository tracking Git for Windows' SDK: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git-sdk-64/blob/master/usr/bin/rsync.exe, and it should work by just dropping it anywhere on the PATH.

Please note, however, that even something as benign as this answer distracts me from supporting Git for Windows, i.e. Git users will not benefit from my help here.