How Can I Find out the Command Line Options for Git-Bash. Exe?
Apparently My Google-Fu Sucks. .. I Know These from Other Stackexchange Posts: --Cd-to-Home # Change Directory to Home --Cd= # Change Directory to -I #? -C #...
Apparently my google-fu sucks...
I know these from other StackExchange posts:
--cd-to-home # Change directory to home
--cd=<path> # Change directory to <path>
-i # ?
-c # Run command, but --command doesn't work/exist
Where can I find a complete list of options for git-bash.exe (the therminal emulator)? I found them for mintty [1], but they don't seem to be the correct ones for git-bash.exe...
Update:
So git-bash.exe just seems to be a simple wrapper that first parses the --cd... options and then runs
usr\bin\mintty.exe --icon git-bash.exe,0 --exec "/usr/bin/bash" --login -i <other arguments>
or similar. That's why only --cd.. and bash options are parsed correctly and not mintty.
If you want to use other options from mintty, you should use a similar command instead of trying to do it with git-bash.exe. E.g.:
usr\bin\mintty.exe --icon git-bash.exe,0 --window full --exec "/usr/bin/bash" --login -i -c "echo 'Hello World!'; read"
4 Answers
Correct there isn't a list of command line options help for git-bash.exe. I spend some time looking for them myself and there isn't any proper documentation on it. It appears to be a wrapper for bin/sh.exe. If you really need to do more then I recommend looking at the help info for sh.exe instead.
I found this commit from 2015 that introduced new command line options:
Here is the list from the commit description:
--command=<command-line>::
Executes `<command-line>` instead of the embedded string resource
--[no-]minimal-search-path::
Ensures that only `/cmd/` is added to the `PATH` instead of
`/mingw??/bin` and `/usr/bin/`, or not
--[no-]needs-console::
Ensures that there is a Win32 console associated with the spawned
process, or not
--[no-]hide::
Hides the console window, or not
You can read the full information in the URL above.
Here is the command line you found when you start git-bash.exe (on 2.8.1)
usr\bin\mintty.exe -o AppID=GitForWindows.Bash -o RelaunchCommand="C:\Git\git-bash.exe" -o RelaunchDisplayName="Git Bash" -i /mingw32/share/git/git-for-windows.ico /usr/bin/bash --login -i
Just type bash.exe --help and it should show a screen with all options.
Example:
$ bash.exe --help
GNU bash, version 4.4.23(1)-release-(x86_64-pc-msys)
Usage: bash [GNU long option] [option] ...
bash [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...
GNU long options:
--debug
--debugger
--dump-po-strings
--dump-strings
--help
--init-file
--login
--noediting
--noprofile
--norc
--posix
--protected
--rcfile
--restricted
--verbose
--version
--wordexp
Shell options:
-ilrsD or -c command or -O shopt_option (invocation only)
-abefhkmnptuvxBCHP or -o option
Type `bash -c "help set"' for more information about shell options.
Type `bash -c help' for more information about shell builtin commands.
Use the `bashbug' command to report bugs.
bash home page: <
General help using GNU software: <
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