Interpreter not found when making a new Shell script configuration
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Hello, maybe it's something wrong from my part, but when I try to make a new Run configuration with a shell script in IntelliJ iDEA, it tell me at the bottom “Error: Interpreter not found”
The only way I found to make it work is to specify the whole “powershell.exe” path (C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe) in the Interpreter path.
A way to do the above step automatically, is to specify the path directly in the settings, and it works. But I wonder why iDEA cannot find powershell.exe directly?
Of course, the powershell command is reachable in cmd.
I did try to add “C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0” to the system Path, but no change (I did reboot the system).
OS: Windows 11 Pro
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Hi, Marco!
Thank you for reaching out to us!
Could you please send us your application logs? You can do so by following these steps:
1. Go to Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data;
2. Attach the file shown to this ticket;
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Sure! Here's the Upload id: 2025_06_16_T6fYykABXN8MbWpKWhbvtV (file: idea-logs-20250617-00430610511321711205803344.zip)
Hi, Marco!
Thanks for getting back with the logs.
I have now just checked your logs, and here are some updates:
IntelliJ IDEA automatically detects your shell path if the shell is installed in the default path.
I can see that your shell is installed in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0, while the IDE expects it to be like C:\\System32\WindowsPowerShell\, therefore it wasn't automatically detected.
This is not uncommon, depending on the particular specifications/configurations of your Windows installation, so you can manually add the shell path just like you did already.
Let me know if you have any questions.