Writing command line tool with node

Question

I'm trying to create a command line tool with node (following these instructions ).

So I add "bin" to package.json file

"bin": {
  "test": "./index.js"
}

Created index.js file

#!usr/bin/env node
console.log('test');

And I use $ sudo npm link .

Finally I try to run it via terminal but I'm getting -bash: /usr/local/bin/test: usr/bin/env: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Any ideas anyone?

Answer 1

npm link links the module locally. For your bin, it means that the binary is installed into node_modules/.bin/ (if i recall fine).

To link a package globally, you should use the --local arg.

npm link . --local

Answer 2

I don't think npm link is needed in this case; you normally would use it to connect a module from your file system that you might otherwise pull in via the npm install command.

Your shebang syntax looks off to me, though, missing the leading slash:

#!/usr/bin/env node