Setting shell-file-name does nothing on Windows

[adrienne]

I've tried setting shell-file-name to several different things on Windows and nothing has worked. Every command errors out.

Here are several things that haven't worked:

• "shell-file-name": "bash" (i do have WSL installed, so "bash" is available globally)
• "shell-file-name": "pwsh"
• "shell-file-name": "pwsh.exe"
• "shell-file-name": "powershell"

Any advice?

[lclutz]

sorry for posting on such an old issue but i ran into the same problem and solved it by using an absolute path to the executable. this did the trick for me:

"shell-file-name": "C:/Program Files/PowerShell/7/pwsh.exe"