'mv' is not recognized as an internal or external command in Windows

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to fix the mv is not recognized as an internal or external command issue.

When we try to move a file from one directory to another directory using the mv command in windows os, we will see this type of error is printed in our command line.

mv src\car.png images

Output:

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

This error is occurred due to the mv command is not available in windows os. It is only available in Linux based operating systems.

To fix the error, replace the mv with windows move command and run it.

Here is an example:

move src\car.png images

This above command moves the image car.png from src folder to images folder.