Is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or script file?

Summary

A Script Task from a deployment or build plan may fail with the following error:

PowerShell is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Environment

Bamboo (or its agents) running on Windows OS.

Diagnosis

If your Bamboo version is 6.10.2 or older, please beware of the following bug:

However, if you're running a more recent version of Bamboo, or you also experience this issue when running the PowerShell command directly from Windows' Command Prompt, please proceed with the below.

Cause

This is caused by the user (or system) PATH environment variable not containing the directory where the PowerShell executable resides. It's usually located at C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe, and although the PATH variable contains the C:\Windows\System32 directory, Windows may have trouble locating the executable within its subfolders.

Solution

The solution consists of adding the directory where the PowerShell executable resides to the PATH environment variable.

1. Search for "environment variables" in the Windows search bar and open the respective Control Panel item.
2. A System Properties window will appear. Click on "Environment Variables" at the bottom.
3. Edit the PATH environment variable and add the path to the folder where PowerShell is located.
   
   
4. For the changes to be picked up, the agent needs to be restarted. You may also need to restart the machine so all of the other Windows portions pick up the new variable.

In this post, we are going to show how to fix 'flutter' is not recognized as an internal or external command error in Windows OS. In PowerShell, the error may look like below: 

flutter : The term 'flutter' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

This error happens when Flutter is not installed correctly in your OS. To solve this issue Follow the following methods.

First, you need to locate the Flutter SDK folder in your files. If you do not have Flutter SDK on your local computer, download Flutter SKD from its official website. Here, our SDK is located at C:\Users\username\Documents\flutter_sdk\flutter . You have to edit the PATH Environment variable and add new path with "bin/". For example: C:\Users\username\Documents\flutter_sdk\flutter\bin

Go to this path and edit the PATH variable and add a new path of your Flutter SDK with "bin\" folder. For example: C:\Users\username\Documents\flutter_sdk\flutter\bin

Save the changes and restart your terminal and hit the command below:

flutter doctor

The output will look like below:

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 2.5.3, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.318], locale en-US)
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more outputs

In this way, you can solve 'flutter' is not recognized as an internal or external command error in Windows OS.

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miliko0022 opened this issue

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I have installed npx @teambit/bvm install. After that I want to check bvm and bit. bit working, and bvm throws an error

bvm : The term 'bvm' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a
path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
bvm -v

I think the path is right

Hi! Do you have a solution for this? I have the same error. I used npm i -g @teambit/bvm and after that I tried to run bvm install but I get the following error:

Appreciate your help!

I'm also seeing the same error as @DCosti . I ran all three suggested setx commands below and in the docs and still seeing that error. Tried these commands in powershell and in powershell as an administrator.

setx path "%path%;%AppData%\npm"
setx path "%path%;C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\.bvm"
setx path "%path%;%LocalAppData%\.bvm"

Experiencing same issues as @clairefields15 and @DCosti . tried all the fixes mentioned in the docs, nothing works :(

I managed somehow to install bvm on a different machine but then when I tried to use one of bit's commands, for example bit status and encounter the same error but for bit this time.

For anyone experiencing this issue - there are known issues with powershell and working with env variables.
Please try this with another shell and see if that solves the issue

Hi! It worked for me using CMD. Appreciate your help @benjgil

Hi,
I am still facing the same issue "'bvm' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file." after setting up the environment variables.

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