Ani-cli not working at all on Windows 11 (Installed with Scoop)

[potatofinder]

I downloaded ani-cli and all of the other recommended packages from scoop, but when I try to run it, it says "/bin/bash: C:\Users\myname\scoop\apps\ani-cli\current\ani-cli: No such file or directory" This happens on both powershell and the normal command prompt. The program is installed, because when I run the command in git bash, it works. But it doesn't fully work, it goes up to when it asks me to pick an episode and never loads. What's happening?

[potatofinder]

Powershell and command prompt still not working, but I got git bash to work.

[ykhan21]

@potatofinder, replace @bash with @"C:\Users\<user>\scoop\apps\git\current\bin\bash.exe" in the ani-cli.cmd file if you want to run it with powershell.

• This assumes you install git with scoop. If you installed git with the installer, replace @bash with @"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe"

The issue is that the scoop/shims/ani-cli.cmd shim that gets called when you enter ani-cli in powershell calls wsl bash. Git bash doesn't have this problem because git bash comes with a normal bash shell which gets invoked instead of the wsl bash.

There is a PR to fix this on scoop's side: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras/pull/13342, which automatically does the wsl bash -> git for windows' bash replacement.

[DRSDavidSoft]

Not relevant but I personally went with the no-scoop method and installed from source: #1357, it was better for me since I already had all the required components on my system