Error: redirection is not supported

[gvwilson]

Reported by someone setting up for a workshop this weekend:

• My installation did not go perfectly. I installed Git Bash and the Software Carpentry Windows installer. Git Bash installed correctly:
• Software Carpentry did not:

Any suggestions?

[ethanwhite]

They probably didn't follow the installation instructions for GitBash properly. This sounds like the #31 issue.

[gvwilson]

From #31: Have the students reinstall Git for Windows to use the Windows console. They would need to make a change on the 5th page of the installer wizard.

[ctmontgomery]

That worked! Thank you!

[embray]

So wait, does the version of nano we're installing not work with mintty?

[iamc]

Is nano the only key software affected by this issue?

If so, this is trivially fixed for mintty adding

alias nano='winpty nano'

in .bash_profile through the installer.

I'm just about doing this for our incoming workshop as we will only use bash, git, ipython and ...nano!

This will make the "Git for Windows" installation a completely default one, and we'll be using mintty, much nicer that the Windows console.

[ethanwhite]

alias nano='winpty nano'

We had a report in the original issue that this wasn't working because it resulted in not being able to move the cursor around: https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer/issues/31#issuecomment-133718108

Maybe this has been fixed?

[iamc]

alias nano='winpty nano'

We had a report in the original issue that this wasn't working because it resulted in not being able to move the cursor around:

31 (comment)

No, you're completely right, it's not fixed. Thanks for the heads up!