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How to Fix wsl is not recognized as an internal and external Command Error in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I'll show you uh if you're
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getting this error message while you
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type uh WSL in the terminal WSL is not
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recognized as an internal or external
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command uh it's called as Windows
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subsystem for Linux command if you want
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to learn if you want to run Linux inside
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your Windows machine then this command
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comes into the
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picture and now to fix this uh just go
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to your C directory and search for the
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folder
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windows and inside this folder you will
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find out a folder called as system 32
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which
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actually contains all your operating
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system files and inside this we have
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this WSL command if you try to open
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terminal here and type the command you
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will see the command will be successful
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so now what we need to do is that we
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need to rightclick copy this entire
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path and just register it globally for
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registering it we need to open
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environment
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variable and just go to the system
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variable system path variable
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click edit and just add this new entry C
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Windows system
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32 and just click okay okay and restart
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the terminal and now execute the same
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command
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WSL now you will see the command will be
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successful you will be able to execute
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this command so it's a very simple fix
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guys hopefully your problem will be
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