How can I let jenkins run `bash` command on windows?

Question

I have setup a jenkins server on windows10 pro and installed ubuntu bash on the system. And I created a Executable windows batch command and put the command bash -c ls there. When executing this job I got below error:

c:\jenkins\workspaces>bash -c ls 
'bash' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

It says that bash is not recognized as an internal or external command. Then I tried to use the absolute path but still not work. The error is shown as below:

c:\jenkins\workspaces>C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe -c ls 
'C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file. 

I can run the command manually on windows. How can I configure this on jenkins? I need to run the build command from windows normal command window and in my build script it needs to launch a process inside bash.

Answer 1

You could install MsysGit, which includes bash, and in Jenkins you have to set the shell executable, which is the path to the sh.exe

You could also install cygwin, but i think this uses high amount of RAM for just running bash scripts.