Terragrunt errors saying terraform not in %PATH% even though it is

Question

I am trying to use Terragrunt for the first time. I have directory with terraform.tfvars. When I run "terragrunt get" just to get ball rolling, I get:

[terragrunt] 2017/08/08 11:08:14 exec: "terraform": executable file not found in %PATH%

This is despite that fact I have terraform in my path. What could be wrong?

I am using Gitbash as my shell on Windows 7 machine. I use terraform literally several times a day from gitbash.

 $ which terragrunt
/c/WINDOWS/system32/terragrunt

 $ which terragrunt
/c/WINDOWS/system32/terragrunt

~/GITS/terra-heroku/us/dev (master)
$ which terraform
/c/WINDOWS/system32/terraform

~/GITS/terra-heroku/us/dev (master)
$ terraform --version
Terraform v0.9.4

Your version of Terraform is out of date! The latest version
is 0.10.0. You can update by downloading from www.terraform.io

~/GITS/terra-heroku/us/dev (master)
$ terragrunt --version
terragrunt version v0.12.25

 #cat terraform.tfvars
terragrunt = {
  terraform {
    source = "git::git@github.com:westfieldcorp/tf-m-heroku-spsr-stack.git"
  }

include = {
    path = "${find_in_parent_folders()}"
  }
}

app_name = "foobar-service"   

$ echo $PATH
/c/Users/mr/bin:/mingw64/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/mingw64/bin:/usr/bin:/c/Users/mrashid/bin:/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/c/Program Files (x86)/WebEx/Productivity Tools:/c/Program Files/Lenovo/Touch Fingerprint Software:/c/Program Files (x86)/Sennheiser/SoftphoneSDK:/c/opscode/chefdk/bin:/c/Program Files/Intel/WiFi/bin:/c/Program Files/Common Files/Intel/WirelessCommon:/c/Program Files/Amazon/AWSCLI:/c/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin:/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/c/WINDOWS/idmu/common:/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/c/Users/mrashid/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python36/Scripts:/c/Users/mrashid/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python36:/c/Ruby22/bin:/c/Users/mr/.babun:/c/Program Files/Intel/WiFi/bin:/c/Program Files/Common Files/Intel/WirelessCommon:/c/Users/mrashid/.babun/cygwin/bin:/c/pstools:/c/Program Files/Heroku/bin:/c/users/mrashid/appdata/Local/programs/python/python36:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

Any help is sincerely appreciated.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 14 '17 at 17:37

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This happens when "terraform init" command has not been run. Once, that was done, terragrunt worked.

answered Aug 14 '17 at 17:37

Mamun

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That's odd - `terragrunt` runs auto-init by default, so running an `get` should've run `init`. – volvox Jun 20 '18 at 13:16
Thanks, seemed obvious once I read this – IamAshay Jun 07 '23 at 21:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '22 at 05:39

Just for the sake of others who are also facing similar issue with Terragrunt i.e. "terraform": executable file not found in $PATH. Please check if you have installed terraform executable properly or not. To verify that follow:

which terraform

sample output -> /bin/terraform

echo $PATH

sample outut -> /usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

Here we can observe that the /bin path is missing. To add that execute below command

echo "PATH=$PATH:/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
terragrunt init OR terragrunt run-all init

This should work fine now.

Terragrunt errors saying terraform not in %PATH% even though it is

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