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

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Ok. First of all, Bizarre problem has some bizarre solution. Uninstall your node js and NPM completely. Then reinstall it, and check, whether it works or not. Best of Luck

npm install -g firebase-tools -f

Using -f for force install again. This work for me

add to .bash_profile export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" and run

npm install -g firebase-tools

this worked for me

If you are using MS Windows:

1. Open Start Menu or press Win button on your keyboard.
2. Type "variables".
3. Click on "Edit the system environment variables"
4. Click on "Environment Variables..." button.
5. In the "System variables" list select "Path" and click on the "Edit..." button under the list.
6. In the "Edit environment variable" dialog click on the "Browse..." button.
7. Navigate to the "c:\users<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming" dir and select the "npm" sub-dir, then click "OK".
8. In the "Edit environment variable" dialog click "OK".
9. In the "Environment Variables" dialog click on "OK".

For the Linux users:

1. Navigate to the home_dir.
2. Edit the hidden ".bash_profile" file.
3. Add line with following text "export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin".

Navigate to the firebase directory and call it out on the cmd.

• run cmd as admin
• cd C:\users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\npm
• firebase.cmd login or firebase login
• firebase will prompt a google login after which the issue should be resolved.

There you go. above steps are all commands goes to your command prompt.

After running npm install -g firebase-tools, go to C:\usr\local. You will see Firebase files.

1. Copy this path C:\usr\local to the clipboard.
2. Open the Start Menu and search for Edit the System Environment Variables or simply env.
3. Select the environment variables option that appears.
4. Find the PATH variable under the system environment variables (lower section).
5. Select PATH and click Edit
6. Add C:\user\local to the beginning of the path.
7. Add %APPDATA%\npm if it doesn't exist.
8. Click OK to each of the windows until they're all closed.

After this, open a Windows command prompt and run firebase --version.

Make sure you are running command line as an administer.