The input device is not a tty. if you are using mintty, try prefixing the command with ‘winpty’

Answer:

The error message “the input device is not a tty” is encountered when trying to execute a command with mintty on Windows. This error occurs because mintty doesn’t have a built-in TTY (teletypewriter) device.

To resolve this issue, you can try prefixing your command with ‘winpty’. ‘winpty’ is a utility that provides an interface between Windows console programs and Cygwin’s PTY (pseudo-terminal) implementation.

Here’s an example:

winpty command_to_execute

You need to replace “command_to_execute” with the actual command you want to run. Prefixing it with ‘winpty’ should help bypass the “the input device is not a tty” error.

For instance, if you want to run the ‘npm start’ command using mintty, you would use:

winpty npm start