Reputation: 609

'RM' is not recognized as an internal or external command while using Meteor on Windows

i am currently having problem with 'meteor' and i am currently new to this learning this stuff. So, after installing 'Meteor' i opened command prompt on Windows and typed :

meteor create goodboy

and then,

cd goodboy

But to delete the live and already running example app, i used :

rm goodboy.*

But the command prompt, gave this error :

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

Is there anyway i can fix this error, thank you.

Upvotes: 43

Answers (12)

Sam

Reputation: 79

you can try use git bash because rm only work on it, if you are using windows default terminal maybe del command can work with you.

Upvotes: 2

DarkHorseCoder

Reputation: 36

Install the Unix Utils package for Windows, which includes the "rm" command. You can download it from here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/

Add the path to the Unix Utils package to your system's environment variables.

To do this, follow these steps:

Open the Start menu and search for "Environment Variables".

Click on "Edit the system environment variables".

Click on the "Environment Variables" button.

Under "System Variables", scroll down and find "Path" and click "Edit".

Click "New" and add the path to the Unix Utils package (e.g. C:\Program Files\UnixUtils\usr\local\wbin).

Click "OK" on all windows to save your changes.

Close and reopen your terminal window to apply the changes.

Upvotes: 1

Vaibhav Mangroliya

Reputation: 33

I guess you are not using the Git Bash terminal but the normal command prompt. Do try the same on the Git Bash terminal and you would not face this error anymore.

Upvotes: 2

Thinh Nguyenvan

Reputation: 11

you should add "remove-build": "rmdir /s /q build", "create-build": "mkdir build", "clean": "npm run remove-build && npm run create-build",

in package.json

Upvotes: 1

Sandeep Gupta

Reputation: 7250

If you are on windows, git bash may run such commands.

Upvotes: 52

Tejasvi Hegde

Reputation: 2914

Download and Extract PortableGit.

This has most of commonly used Linux based tools ported to windows.

Add [PortableGit Path]\usr\bin to PATH variable of Windows

You can also use your system's Git installation instead of PortableGit.

This should solve the problem

Upvotes: 7

lucsan

Reputation: 850

My penny's worth.

You could potentially add rm to powershell. In your (or a) profile.ps1 (or other if your powershell is not core).

rm {
  del
}

or as an alias

Set-Alias rm del

or (and this is a tricky one), run WSL, bind the target folder and run via the linux interface.

PS: running the command via the Git Bash (MINGW64) terminal as suggested above, did the trick for me.

Upvotes: 4

Amin Keshavarzian

Reputation: 3943

first, install linux clients for windows, I use Ubunto LTS then install node.js and run your command again. here, you find good instructions to do it so, as well as how to install cool new Windows Terminal

Upvotes: 0