Jekyll Liquid Exception: Cannot find /bin/sh on Windows

Question

I installed the Jekyll Gem on Windows via a Ruby installation using the RailsInstaller distribution.

When I try to run jekyll build or any command that includes that as a subcommand, I get the following error:

Jekyll error

2013-03-08-response-ruby-interfaces.md is one of my posts. Any suggestions as to what might be going on? The command builds out the skeleton of the site, in the _site directory, but all of the files are empty. Any suggestions?

Does it build when you remove that post? If so, add a link to Markdown file, problem should be there. — Pavlo, Jul 02 '13 at 12:51

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '13 at 05:28

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I ran into this issue as well and solved it by turning pygments off in my _config.yml:

pygments:    false

Despite having pygments installed, I can't seem to get it to work with Jekyll under Windows.

You lose syntax highlighting, but you gain a working Jekyll install.

answered Jun 28 '13 at 05:28

tgittos

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No such luck for me; still getting the same issue. – Syllepsis Jun 29 '13 at 23:33
seems like downgrading pygments helps as well. This SO details it in more detail: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17404260/50109 – Juri Aug 19 '13 at 20:35
This fixes the issue for now. I tried installing pygments, not sure still not working. Better disable for now and get back to work. – Mon Noval Sep 11 '13 at 03:39
Genius. Works like a charm. Thanks for making an SO account just to answer this. – Synesso Sep 22 '13 at 02:25

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

I managed to fix doing two things

First is making sure that pygments is running on 0.5.0. At the same time making sure that newer versions are uninstalled

gem uninstall pygments.rb --version "=0.5.2"
gem uninstall pygments.rb --version "=0.5.1"
gem install pygments.rb --version "=0.5.0"

Second, well, pygments would need python installed and adding it in

C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby1.9.3\setup_environment.bat

At this line

SET PATH=%RUBY_DIR%\bin;other paths\here;%PATH%

Will become

SET PATH=%RUBY_DIR%\bin;other paths\here;C:\Python27;%PATH%

Close the "Command Prompt with Ruby and Rails" and start again. It will now run jekyll serve without errors

Reference:

Jekyll on Windows: Pygments not working

` gem uninstall pygments.rb --version "=0.5.2" gem uninstall pygments.rb --version "=0.5.1" gem install pygments.rb --version "=0.5.0"` does the job for me. — zzeroo, Sep 13 '13 at 18:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 25 '13 at 15:51

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I was the same and changing the encode solve Use UTF8

answered Jul 25 '13 at 15:51

Felipe

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that just removes the Liquid exception but then Jekyll for some reason completely ignores the file – Juri Aug 19 '13 at 20:27

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 04 '13 at 02:45

Adding to @Mon Noval's answer, I would also make sure you run gem list first and look for pygments. I followed Mon Noval's process, and when it still didn't fix things, I ran gem list in the command line and found out that I did have pygments 0.5.0 installed but in the parentheses it was also showing 0.5.4 installed. So make sure you look for any and all versions above 0.5.0!

Works like a charm now!

Jekyll Liquid Exception: Cannot find /bin/sh on Windows

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