Various commands not recognized

[quan-h-vu]

Hi all, Hugo newbie here and honestly, new to CLI in general. I’ve been running into errors when trying different commands. It makes me think that I installed something incorrectly.

I just tried to run commit add -A. This literally worked yesterday. But now I get this error message.

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

I ran into the same error message when trying to use touch as well. Both commands are part of this GitHub Pages doc.

[jmooring]

The command is git commit not commit. Are you a Windows user?

[quan-h-vu]

Yes, I’m a Windows user. Sorry, that’s user error on the git commit issue. Please disregard.

But touch doesn’t work for me. I still get the same error message.

[jmooring]

On Windows, using PowerShell…

Instead of this:

touch filename.txt

Do this:

"" > filename.txt

[quan-h-vu]

Awesome, thanks for the help here