I suspect this is my ineptitude in getting path variables set right, but I'm at a loss.

I've installed the aws cli using pip in cygwin.

pip install awscli

I have two python environments... a windows anaconda distribution, and the version cygwin can install for you.

which python 
> /usr/bin/pythonwhere python
> C:\cygwin64\bin\python
> C:\windows-style-path-to-anaconda\python.exe

when I try to run aws cli

aws --version
> C:\windows-style-path-to-anaconda\python.exe: can't open file 
> 'cygdrive/c/cygdrive-style-path-to-anaconda/Scripts/aws': 
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory'

I've tried adding the path to aws to my windows path variable. No luck.

I've tried adding this to my .bashrc

export PATH="$PATH:/cygdrive/c/cygdrive-style-path-to-anaconda/Scripts"

No luck.

I've tried modifying the 'aws' that python is trying to run. First I modified the #! to point to the cygwin python instead of the windows python.

#!c:\cygwin64\bin\python

then it could find the file 'aws' to run... but it couldn't find any of the files to import... 'awscli.clidriver', 'botocore._', etc.

I tried modifying my path variables to point to the location of these... anaconda/Lib/site-packages... I even tried doing a sys.path.insert(1, path) in the 'aws' file itself.... it fixed that problem but every single file it loaded was looking in other places and not finding them, and it was too many things to mess with one at a time in the aws .py files.

here's what sort of works... in cygwin...

cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin-path-to-anaconda/Scripts
./aws --version
> aws-cli/1.10.26 Python/2.7.11 Windows/7 botocore/1.4.17

but there has to be a better way, right? either...

• get my path variables set right

• get the aws cli installed in the cygwin python directory instead of the windows anaconda environment

unfortunately, pip uninstall just hangs trying to remove awscli, and I don't know how to force it to use the cygwin python if I even could uninstall/reinstall. And after a bunch of tries at fixing my path variables, I'm at a loss.

Any advice appreciated.

When running pip install awscli from cygwin, it may install awscli in Window's Anaconda Python installation, instead of in Cygwin's Python (which is what you want). Then, when running aws, you will get an error that the aws executable can't be found. The solution I found was installing python/pip inside cygwin by following below bash commands from cygwin shell:

pip uninstall awscli
wget rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin
apt-cyg install python
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
pip install awscli

Make sure you have wget installed in cygwin.