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Charles Haro
Charles Haro

Reputation: 1886

android is not recognized as an internal or external command

So I'm having the same issue as this guy in this question

android' is not recognized as an internal or external command

But when I changed my PATH variable and added the path to android.bat my cmd still does gives

'android' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

My PATH looks like this

D:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_04\bin;D:\BossGrand\Programing\Ant\apache-ant-1.8.4\bin;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;D:\Program Files\Android\tools

and I made sure android.bat is inside D:\Program Files\Android\tools

I know this because when I go to this directory I can use the android update project command just fine

Does anyone know why I still can't use the android command?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 10060

Answers (3)

MSH
MSH

Reputation: 193

you must enter the command with complete arguments

android update project -p .

be carefull you must enter a dot at the end of command.

Upvotes: 0

qianlv
qianlv

Reputation: 550

Use the command prompt with admin .It work for me : )

Upvotes: 1

Testing Singh
Testing Singh

Reputation: 1353

You might have installed Cygwin as part of the SDK. I had the same problem "android.bat is not recognized as an internal or external command". So, Uninstall the Cygwin and try again (you might not able to uninstall Cygwin, since a mysterious “permission denied” when deleting the Cygwin files by default). You need to own access to this mysterious Cygwin files by doing

Take ownership: takeown /r /d y /f cygwin (do this, wherever is your cygwin folder is)

This command takes ownership recursive of the folder, without asking anything and gives Full Access to Everyone recursively in the folder:

icacls cygwin /t /grant Everyone:F And finally, the command which deletes it all and removes Cygwin:

rmdir /s /q cygwin Good bye Cygwin!

Now try again. (This worked for me)

PS: You can always re-install cygwin again. So, nothing wrong giving it a try. Good Luck

Upvotes: 0

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