How add commands to cygwin - npm

Question

I use cygwin on windows 8.1 to have an Unix shell. But I cannot run commands such as npm from it.

What should I do to do it? Add some kind of env var to cygwin? Why

Answer 1

In order to fix the npm script to work even with dos encoding, i submitted a patch.

Answer 2

How to make cygwin work with npm command

1. install http://nodejs.org/#download
2. download http://nodejs.org/dist/npm/
3. extract npm.zip into node.exe
4. run cygwin terminal again

That is it!

Answer 3

This seems to be a problem with the npm script as mentioned here, https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/5912

Assuming you have installed nodejs in the default location you can run the following dos2unix command and fix the error.

dos2unix c:/Program\ Files/nodejs/npm

This fixed my problems with the npm script.

Answer 4

sed -i 's/\r//' "$(type -p npm)"

Convert line endings

Also despite the comment, this will not hurt execution with cmd.exe

$ printf '@echo hello\n@echo world\n@echo doge\n' > foo.bat

$ cmd /c foo.bat
hello
world
doge