Installing sha1sum on git-bash (MinGW)

This is a synthesis from my longer answer to a similar question in SO.

If your app logs to stdout/stderr, use:

cmd //c start cmd //k  "path\\to\\script-dir\\script.py"

If it logs to files, via sockets etc. and you do not need stdout/stderr, use:

cmd //c start //D "path\\to\\script-dir" script.py

In both cases you get a daemon like process which will survive when you close bash. In the first instance your script is hosted in a visible cmd.exe window.

Much more here.

This will be helpfull article.

https://gist.github.com/evanwill/0207876c3243bbb6863e65ec5dc3f058

The basic idea is that C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\ is your / directory according to Git Bash (note: depending on how you installed it, the directory might be different. from the start menu, right click on the Git Bash icon and open file location. It might be something like C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Git, the mingw64 in this directory is your root). If you go to that directory, you will find the typical linux root folder structure (bin, etc, lib and so on). If you are missing a utility, such as wget, track down a binary for windows and copy the files to the corrisponding directories. Sometimes the windows binary have funny prefixes, so you should rename the exe file to the standard name. Since bin is on the PATH, it will be automatically available to Git Bash.

It isn't easy. You have to find, download and copy to any global directory tools compiled for Windows environment (*.exe files like wget.exe) You can copy them to C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin or any other directory listed in your system or user PATH variable to have global acccess to these files.