Bat failed to work in Powershell or CMD properly

[szw0407]

What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. Running bat command on Windows, using powershell 7 or cmd.exe

What happens?

Nothing happens in fact

Only by using Git Bash could bat run properly.

What did you expect to happen instead?

Bat should have worked properly

How did you install bat?

scoop install bat

Using Winget or chocolatey will cause the similar issue.

bat version and environment

Software version

bat 0.24.0 (fc95468)

Operating system

Windows 6.2.9200

Command-line

C:\Users\*****\scoop\apps\bat\current\bat.exe .\a.html --diagnostic

All usernames are okay, and I hid them manually.

Environment variables

SHELL=<not set>
PAGER=<not set>
LESS=<not set>
LANG=<not set>
LC_ALL=<not set>
BAT_PAGER=<not set>
BAT_PAGING=<not set>
BAT_CACHE_PATH=<not set>
BAT_CONFIG_PATH=<not set>
BAT_OPTS=<not set>
BAT_STYLE=<not set>
BAT_TABS=<not set>
BAT_THEME=<not set>
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=<not set>
XDG_CACHE_HOME=<not set>
COLORTERM=<not set>
NO_COLOR=<not set>
MANPAGER=<not set>

System Config file

Could not read contents of 'C:\ProgramData\bat\config': 系统找不到指定的路径。 (os error 3).

This means that the system cannot find such path

Config file

Could not read contents of 'C:\Users*******\AppData\Roaming\bat\config': 系统找不到指定的路径。 (os error 3).

Custom assets metadata

Could not read contents of 'C:\Users********\AppData\Local\bat\metadata.yaml': 系统找不到指定的路径。 (os error 3).

Custom assets

'C:\Users*******\AppData\Local\bat' not found

Compile time information

• Profile: release
• Target triple: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
• Family: windows
• OS: windows
• Architecture: x86_64
• Pointer width: 64
• Endian: little
• CPU features: fxsr,sse,sse2
• Host: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

Less version

> C:\ProgramData\scoop\shims\less.exe --version
BusyBox v1.37.0-FRP-5181-g5c1a3b00e (2023-08-18 12:16:29 BST)

Usage: less [-EFIMmNSRh~] [FILE]...

View FILE (or stdin) one screenful at a time

        -E      Quit once the end of a file is reached
        -F      Quit if entire file fits on first screen
        -I      Ignore case in all searches
        -M,-m   Display status line with line numbers
                and percentage through the file
        -N      Prefix line number to each line
        -S      Truncate long lines
        -R      Remove color escape codes in input
        -~      Suppress ~s displayed past EOF
C:\ProgramData\scoop\apps\busybox\current\busybox.exe: unknown option -- version

Command failed with exit code 1.

[szw0407]

Perhaps, Windows should seek for bat.exe instead of bat, which cannot be found by cmd or pwsh, but bash recognized that.

[keith-hall]

from the output of your which bat performed in PowerShell, that would indicate that it can find it the executable without you needing to specify the .exe extension. I wonder whether the problem is somehow related to the pager. Does it work in PowerShell with bat a.html --paging=never?

[szw0407]

Yes, that works!

So is it an issue with less.exe on my device, which in fact comes from BusyBox for windows? When I use the less 643, everything is just normal.

[szw0407]

If there is nothing wrong, may the issue just be closed? I have confirmed that it is an issue with Busybox-w32 or the less.exe going with it, but not an issue with Bat.

[keith-hall]

Nice, happy to hear you got it sorted 👍
Yes, it can just be closed. Or we can see if it makes sense to mention it somewhere in the documentation in case it will help others with the same problem in future 🙂