Does anyone know how to run the scala executable in Git Bash shell?

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I have installed Scala on my Windows 7 system. When I run "scala -version" from the Windows command prompt, I get: Scala code runner version 2.11.4 -- Copyright 2002-2013, LAMP/EPFL When I run "scala -version" from a Git Bash shell, required by Swagger and other frameworks, I get: Error: Could not find or load main class Files

Does anyone know how to run the scala executable from a Git Bash shell?

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I'm guessing that you've installed Scala on C:\Program Files (x86) or C:\Program Files. As far as I can tell, git bash has problems reading the classpath if it has spaces and/or "()" in it.

If you're on a Win7 64-bit system, the easiest thing for you is:

  1. Edit the system variables PATH
  2. Find the scala\bin entry
  3. Replace the C:\Program Files with Progra~1 or C:\Program Files (x86) with Progra~2

If you're not on a 64-bit system, (which I can't verify due to not having one), you'll have to do some escaping so that PATH isn't screwed up with the spaces and/or ().

EDIT: Here's a related SO but with Play instead: Play 2.0-RC3 -- Error: Could not find or load main class

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Install scala with Coursier and run the scala.bat command from git bash terminal