Windows 10 - "sleep": executable file not found in $PATH

[testautomation]

Task version: 2.8.0
OS: Windows 10 64 bit

error:

echo ... staring EHRbase server ...
... staring EHRbase server ...
java -jar ../application/target/application-0.11.0.jar --cache.enabled=false > log &
sleep 20
"sleep": executable file not found in $PATH
task: Failed to run task "start": task: Failed to run task "starteb": exit status 127

example task

starteb:
        cmds:
          - echo ... starting EHRbase server ...
          - java -jar ../application/target/application-0.11.0.jar --cache.enabled=false > log &
          - sleep 20
          - echo ... EHRbase server started.

additional information

sleep is not supported by Window's cmd.exe

but works in PowerShell

task command was executed in "Windows Terminal (Preview)" which uses PowerShell under the hood - not cmd.exe

[andreynering]

Hi @testautomation,

What happens is that the sleep builtin is not implemented on the shell interpreter Task uses, so it unfortunately won't work on Windows for now (which doesn't have a proper executable called sleep available).

I'm closing this as a duplicate of #197.

For more information see mvdan/sh#93 and mvdan/sh#97.