bash command not found

11 Februrary 2016By Rich @Black Sand Solutions
  • NodeJS
  • npm
  • bash

Ive never had a problem with npm in the past; everything just worked.Not today. Not today. The dev machine I inherited with the new job, had pretty much nothing useful installed

bash command not found

And whilst Node.js installed without a hitch, anything I installed via npm could not be run on the command line.

Obviously the path was not getting set correctly upon install.

So I tried to do this manually, but made the mistake of being too specific...

Bower:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower\bin

Gulp:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gulp\bin

Gulp-CLI

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gulp-cli\bin

Turns out I just needed the one path:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm

Hope this saves somebody some head scratching.

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