CMD scripts not recognized, despite present in PATH

[kenorb]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ git --version --build-options
git version 2.18.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: cd1a74fc9dc8a07626c216940db9a51f25206e03
sizeof-long: 4

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

$ cat /etc/install-options.txt
Editor Option: VIM
Path Option: CmdTools
SSH Option: OpenSSH
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: LFOnly
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Enabled

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

$ echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/bash

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

$ aws --version
bash: aws: command not found

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

$ aws.cmd --version
aws-cli/1.15.65 Python/3.6.0 Windows/10 botocore/1.10.64

• What actually happened instead?

The aws command cannot be found.

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Basically aws command doesn't exist, but aws.cmd does. The command works in other terminals such as Hyper, CMD or PowerShell.

I believe the problem is that this shell doesn't look for scripts with .cmd extension.

See:

$ whereis aws
C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLI\bin\aws.cmd
$ aws
bash: aws: command not found
$ echo $PATH | egrep ":[^:]+AWS[^:]+:" -o
:/c/Program Files/Amazon/AWSCLI/bin:
$ ls /c/Program\ Files/Amazon/AWSCLI/bin
aws.cmd

[dscho]

Is the same issue present in MSYS2? If so, this issue might be better reported to https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages, as it would be an MSYS2 Bash issue.

[marekadare]

I ran into the same Problem.
The .cmd files are not recognized by bash because they are windows "commands".

I then installed python and pip to install awscli and it worked for me (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/awscli-install-windows.html#awscli-install-windows-pip)

However I can't get aws-cli to prompt for a MFA Token when I connect to AWS because git-bash has issues to execute python.

I hope this helps :)

[dscho]

Is the same issue present in MSYS2?

As this question is still unanswered, I see myself forced to close this ticket without further attempts at resolving the issue.