Reputation: 649

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

I work with laravel 5 , when i type in windows cmd this command "touch storage\database.sqlite" this error message rise 'touch' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. any hint to solve it ?

Upvotes: 65

Answers (20)

Ahnaf

Reputation: 1

This error occurs because PowerShell's execution policy is set to restrict the execution of scripts. You can change the execution policy to allow scripts to run.

To solve this ->

Search for "PowerShell" in the start menu. Right-click on "Windows PowerShell" and select "Run as administrator".
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser or Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope CurrentUser
Confirm the change when prompted by typing Y and pressing Enter.

Once you have changed the execution policy, you can run commands like touch, yarn etc in the terminal:

Thanks me later

Upvotes: 0

navalega0109

Reputation: 392

with npm install touch-cli -g it works inside VS Code.

Upvotes: 0

SophieTP

Reputation: 44

I'm using window subsystem for linux. wsl works just fine mixing Windows and Linux commands:

wsl touch test.py

FYI I've found it here.

Upvotes: 1

Fail'

Reputation: 1

You may be using PowerShell. The team helped me Add-Content. Link to the page https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/add-content?view=powershell-7.2&viewFallbackFrom=powershell-7.1

Example: Add-Content -Path .\Test.txt //Test.txt - name of file

Upvotes: 0

Fuze Thien

Reputation: 70

I was reading a solution in the GitHub community and it's effective for me.

If you are using VSCode and you would like to do something like Linux you can use git bash and it works the same. You can add git bash into VSCode by the following:

File -> Preferences -> Setting ( Or Ctrl + , ).
Now, looking the top right and choose the icon "Open Settings (JSON)".
Add this to the last of the Setting file:

"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
    "Git Bash": {
        "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe"
    },
},
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "Git Bash"

Finally reopen the VSCode and open the git bash terminal in your VSCode.

Notice: Make sure you have already installed Git Bash. Good luck!

Upvotes: 1

cyberdenz

Reputation: 2281

if you are using node.js just use npm to install it on Windows with this command:

npm install touch-cli -g

it will install the command line interface for touch, you can then use it the same as unix...

Upvotes: 218

sara shamsher

Reputation: 11

You can type the same cmd in git bash in the folder where you want your compose file.

Upvotes: 1

NimaDoustdar

Reputation: 326

run this code in cmd then Finish:)))))))

npm install touch-cli -g

Upvotes: -1

Jarrett GXZ

Reputation: 608

Incase anyone is trying to use the 'touch' command from windows to configure Typescript for a React Native app, or anything else. It works for me by running the 'touch' command either from git bash or by downloading the WSL and running it from there.

Upvotes: 1

Abass Abdul Wahab

Reputation: 1

If all the solutions above still dont work for you. Try this:

If you already have Git installed, then you also have GIT BASH installed too... To solve this problem navigate to your project directory using the GIT BASH Terminal and try again using touch Procfile. It should work perfectly.

Upvotes: 0