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Aidan Pine
Aidan Pine
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Aidan Pine
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Problem with git on windows

Hi there,

I'm currently on the "Processes" section of the "Console Foundations" course. I'm having a problem where a number of the commands that I'm being told to type into the console work using the treehouse console, but don't work on Git Bash on my Windows 10 computer. Here's an example of the error:

$ top bash.exe": top: command not found

By the way, my git version is 1.9.5.msysgit.0

Any suggestions would be super appreciated!

Aidan

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Aidan Pine
Aidan Pine
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Aidan Pine
Aidan Pine
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Haha, yes! It would appear to be that way, right? It comes up in the first video of the third module of the the Console Foundations course (https://teamtreehouse.com/library/console-foundations/processes/processes) and he introduces "top" at 1:10.

I think I may have found the answer though:

"top (table of processes) is a task manager program found in many Unix-like operating systems. " (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_(software))

and:

"On Solaris, the roughly equivalent program is prstat. MS-DOS has tasklist and graphical Microsoft operating systems have the Windows Task Manager. IBM AIX has an updating running processes list as part of the topas and topas_nmon commands." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_(software))

If I type "tasklist" I get a roughly equivalent window to the one in the video. There was just no mention in the video that it wouldn't work for Windows or anything.

Thanks again, Nejc.

Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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Well that's good research from you. And thank you for sharing information :) Now I know :) I would normally do the research but I was @work so I didn't have the time to poke around :)

I was thinking in the same direction that this could be Linux specific command :) I normaly use ps -acx for the task listings(Mac User I am).

Good job! You are getting a best answer from me for the research.

Regards,

Nejc

Nejc Vukovic
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With which command you have a problem exactly?

I'm running GitBash on my Windows and no errors came up so far.

Aidan Pine
Aidan Pine
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Aidan Pine
Aidan Pine
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Hi Nejc,

Thanks for the reply. The "top" command is the one that gave me the error above.

Aidan

Nejc Vukovic
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Nejc Vukovic
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Well to be honest there seems to be a problem with "top". It doesn't exist :)

Could you provide the video link where this command is used?