Installing WP-CLI on cygwin

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To install WP-CLI on my Windows 7 machine with cygwin I did the following:

First, running the installer as provided by http://wp-cli.org/ doesn’t work, since the installer cannot find php.

So instead run:

curl https://raw.github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli.github.com/master/installer.sh >installer.sh

Then add the path to your php installation to the installer.sh. In my case it is located in the wamp directory

find_php() {
    read -r -d '' AMP_PATHS <<EOB
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/php
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/*/bin/php
/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/php
/opt/lampp/bin/php
/cygdrive/d/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.8/php.exe
EOB

Then follow the instructions and add the path to .wp-cli/bin to $PATH in your .bash_profile
Also export WP_CLI_PHP  (the path to your php binary)

export PATH=/home/Ric11/.wp-cli/bin:$PATH
export WP_CLI_PHP=/cygdrive/d/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.8/php.exe

To test run:

wp --info