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

[prochafilho]

I recently started using Cmder, and I am now getting this message; even though MySQL is on my %Path, what gives?

[jmazurpl]

Same here - do you have any solution?

[TaylorHuston]

I recently installed MySQL and am also getting this, and since doing so Cmder no longer recognizes ruby, rails or bundler as commands. My normal command prompt still does.

[quocanha]

I just installed MySQL as well and had the same problem. Through some experimenting and research I found out that it had to do with my PATH having an &.

In my case it was the path
C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Fabric 1.5.4 & MySQL Utilities 1.5.4 1.5\
which appears new to me.

Short explanation is that the cmder/vendor/init.bat file tries to put the path with the & into the PATH variable of the DOS script. However it somehow reads the content after the & as a new line. This results in cmder attempting to execute a MySQL program with the rest of the string as parameters.

@prochafilho you said you have MySQL in your path, this makes me think that the path to MySQL Server 5.6\bin is after the &.

The solution to this is simply wrapping the path which contains the & with double quotes in the environment variables.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Fabric 1.5.4 & MySQL Utilities 1.5.4 1.5\"

I found a stackexchange question which suffered from this same phenomenon and have elaborated in more detail over there.

http://superuser.com/questions/911799/why-cmder-does-not-import-the-user-path-variables/913977#913977

[TaylorHuston]

Huzzah! You're a genius

[glucas]

An '&' is used to execute multiple commands. This:

set foo = this & that

is interpreted as two commands:

set foo = this
that

You can get the right behavior like this, which might not be intuitive:

set "foo = this & that"

[prochafilho]

You are literally a life saver! I think this issue should be addressed on the docs, maybe?! Thank you so much!

[anukiransolur]

path and Mysql variables are set as suggested but still no luck. It keeps saying "'MySQL' is not recognized as an internal or external command".

[kfrederix]

This is related to: https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/issues/185

For anyone still having this problem: this simple fix did the trick for me:
(just put double quotes around the whole thing in cmder/vendor/init.bat)

:: Enhance Path
@set "PATH=%CMDER_ROOT%\bin;%PATH%;%CMDER_ROOT%"

[darkyen]

@kfrederix you saved me head banging on command prompt, please accept a cookie !

[clappski]

Just to put a pin in this, probably the best way to do it (as the /vendor/init/bat file will be changed per update) is to add the caret ('^') escape character in the actual path, just before the '&'.

[Jakehp]

Thank you @kfrederix . Solved my issue.

[maral]

@quocanha Thanks a lot!!!