The term 'go' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

Question

After running...

go run main.go

I get this error

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

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Travis Rivera · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-10T03:13:33.390

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SOLVED: Go to visual studio code (assuming this is installed) ctrl + shift + p to open command window type

Go: current GOPATH

this should give you a path create a system environment variable named GOPATH and add that path into that variable.

Make sure the system environment variables are set to:

GOPATH is set (in my case) to C:\Users[username]\go

GOROOT is set to C:\go\

IDE is Visual Studio Code.

edited Nov 10 '18 at 03:13

answered Feb 04 '18 at 16:50

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On Windows instillation, the Go MSI installs GOPATH as a user variable instead of a system variable. Thanks for the fix. – NicoLA Oct 27 '18 at 19:23
I get - Go: : The term 'Go:' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. – ilans Dec 27 '19 at 12:58
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Restart VSCode is required. – Avi May 22 '20 at 05:46

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 23 '20 at 07:40

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$env:Path = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","Machine")

write the code to the terminal and run it. Eazy way to solve the problem.

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answered Jun 22 '20 at 12:10

Mcan_Cicek

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this only works once and not permanently! – seebi May 06 '21 at 12:54

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 04 '21 at 10:46

I had same issue. Then found the below solution on the book "Learning Go" of O'REILLY.

If you are on a Unix-like system using bash, add the following lines to your .profile. (If you are using zsh, add these lines to .zshrc instead):

export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

You’ll need to source $HOME/.profile to make these changes take effect in your cur‐ rent terminal window. On Windows, run the following commands at the command prompt:

setx GOPATH %USERPROFILE%\go
setx path "%path%;%USERPROFILE%\bin"

After running these commands, you must close your current command prompt and open a new one for these changes to take effect.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 30 '22 at 12:58

A couple of solutions:

Run refreshenv to refresh the PATH environment variable in the current terminal session.

PS C:\> refreshenv
Refreshing environment variables from the registry for powershell.exe. Please wait...
Finished
PS C:\> go version
go version go1.18.4 windows/amd64

Open a new terminal window and try again.
Restart PC and try again.

score -2 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 23 '21 at 03:03

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I was facing similar issues for commands installed via pip, I had to add the full path to Scripts folder to the PATH variable

C:\Users\username\.pyenv\pyenv-win\versions\3.x.y\Scripts

For go too I believe something similar is to be done.

answered Sep 23 '21 at 03:03

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The term 'go' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

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