If you're working on a Windows machine and have the composer.bat in your $PATH (or %PATH%),
Cygwin's Mintty terminal as well as the Gitbash will still complain about composer not being a known command.
If you try to use composer from a Mintty/Gitbash terminal, you'll get something like:
ssc@Stephan-Ultrabook MINGW64 /cygdrive/c/work/aoe/projects/cobra-aw/Project (develop)
$ composer update
-bash: composer: command not found
ssc@Stephan-Ultrabook MINGW64 /cygdrive/c/work/aoe/projects/cobra-aw/Project (develop)
$ which composer
which: composer: unknown command
To fix it, use whereis to find the absolute path to the composer.phar..
ssc@Stephan-Ultrabook MINGW64 /cygdrive/c/work/aoe/projects/cobra-aw/Project (develop)
$ whereis composer
composer: /cygdrive/c/opt/composer /cygdrive/c/opt/composer/composer.bat /cygdrive/c/opt/composer/composer.phar
.. then copy the binary to your (fake) /usr/bin directory and make it executable..
ssc@Stephan-Ultrabook MINGW64 /cygdrive/c/work/aoe/projects/cobra-aw/Project (develop)
$ cp -p /cygdrive/c/opt/composer/composer.phar /usr/bin/composer
ssc@Stephan-Ultrabook MINGW64 /cygdrive/c/work/aoe/projects/cobra-aw/Project (develop)
$ chmod +x /usr/bin/composer
.. and you're all set. composer will finally work as expected:
ssc@Stephan-Ultrabook MINGW64 /cygdrive/c/work/aoe/projects/cobra-aw/Project (develop)
$ which composer
/usr/bin/composer
ssc@Stephan-Ultrabook MINGW64 /cygdrive/c/work/aoe/projects/cobra-aw/Project (develop)
$ composer install
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