Running Spigot BuildTools.jar from PowerShell using Git Bash

Question

I'm trying to write a PowerShell script to update Spigot using Git Bash. Hopefully from the two failed PS examples below you get the gist of what I'm trying to do.

I can successfully open a Git Bash shell in the target folder and run java -jar BuildTools.jar. When I try to run through PowerShell, a CMD window opens and immediately closes. No errors are displayed and best I can tell, the CMD window contains no text. I prefer to use PowerShell over a CMD script because I am leveraging Invoke-WebRequest earlier on to get the latest version of BuildTools.jar. I would like to keep all this together in one script.

Example 1:

Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe" -ArgumentList "--login -i -c ""java -jar BuildTools.jar"""

Example 2:

Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe" -ArgumentList '--login', '-i', '-c', '"java -jar BuildTools.jar"'

Why an interactive login shell? `& bash.exe -c "java -jar BuildTools.jar"` should suffice if `bash.exe` is in your `$env:PATH`. Otherwise use the full path to the executable. — Ansgar Wiechers, Dec 10 '16 at 16:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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Figured it out thanks to an idea from Ansgar Wiechers.

Solution is as follows:

Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe" -ArgumentList '-c', '"cd /c/Bitnami/Updater && java -jar BuildTools.jar"'

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Dec 10 '16 at 22:53

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Running Spigot BuildTools.jar from PowerShell using Git Bash

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