I'm using a PC with Windows 7 and a Python 3.4 Jupyter notebook from Anaconda3 version 2.3.0.

I'm attempting to run the cell magic bash command from a Jupyter notebook and am having problems that I imagine others will encounter as well.

From what I've seen in tutorials, it should be as simple as...

%%bash
pwd

When I attempt this, I get the error "Couldn't find program: 'bash'". This is true for other bash commands. I have also tried !bash and that has not worked.

A few strange observations that may help:

I am able to run bash commands that don't require parameters as long as they are the first line in the cell.

In: 
ls    

Out:
Volume in drive D is DATA
Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX

Directory of D:\...

05/19/2016  06:25 PM              .

However if I put a return above the command, it seems to interpret the cell as python and gives the "name 'ls' is not defined" error.

If I attempt to call the bash line magic command %bash I get the below error:

'ERROR: Line magic function `%bash` not found (But cell magic `%%bash` exists, did you mean that instead?)'.

Thanks in advance for any help.