My $0.02 As I'm using Emacs on Windows, with MSYS2+MingW64, I tried this. There is a problem with using bash from a _native_ MingW64 Emacs: bash is a MSYS2 app and Emacs is a MingW64 app. From emacs, I would have used the plink protocol, so that's what I did. And I got this message in the *Org-Babel Error Output* buffer /bin/sh: 1: C:/Local/Emacs/bin/cmdproxy.exe: not found So I looked at ob-eval.el and the org-babel-eval function. And there are at least 2 big problems. 1- when entering this function, the `command' parameter is "C:/Local/Emacs/bin/cmdproxy.exe" 2 - the `shell-file-name' variable has the same value So the following won't work for Windows : ;; Unfortunately, `executable-find' does not support file name ;; handlers. Therefore, we could use it in the local case ;; only. (shell-file-name (cond ((and (not (file-remote-p default-directory)) (executable-find shell-file-name)) shell-file-name) ((file-executable-p (concat (file-remote-p default-directory) shell-file-name)) shell-file-name) ("/bin/sh"))) BTW I don't see the point concatenating shell-file-name with default-directory when the later is remote. Do we expect to find the shell in the remote directory ? Anyway, there is little chance this stuff will work under Windows with a native Emacs. If I find time, I may try to propose some fix. Fabrice 2016-09-22 16:52 GMT+02:00 Nick Dokos : > Colin Baxter writes: > > > >> #+BEGIN_SRC shell :dir /scp:openwrt:/mnt/sda1 > >> ls -al > >> #+END_SRC > >> > >> The error, I think, is from the remote end. > >> > >> /bin/sh: /bin/zsh: not found > >> > >> Clearly, I am using zsh on my Windows, but my remote OpenWRT system > only has ash installed. Is > >> there's way to specify the shell to use on the remote end? > >> > > > > I can't help you here. I've never used openwrt. All I can suggest is to > > search openwrt documentation or try with cgywin. > > > > IIUC, openwrt is the name of the remote node - nothing to do with OpenWrt > (except of course, that > the remote node may be a router which has been flashed with OpenWrt, but > that should make no > difference to ssh/tramp). > > -- > Nick > > > -- Fabrice Popineau ----------------------------- SUPELEC Département Informatique 3, rue Joliot Curie 91192 Gif/Yvette Cedex Tel direct : +33 (0) 169851950 Standard : +33 (0) 169851212 ------------------------------