NPM script under cygwin/windows: the syntax of the command is incorrect

Question

I am running Node 6.9.5 and NPM 3.10.10 on a Windows 7 machine. My terminal is Cygwin 2.877.

If I try to run the following in Cygwin, it works fine:

Answer 1

The script are always run in the default windows shell, not cygwin.

If you want it to run in bash then put this in package.json:

"scripts": {
    "test": "bash test.sh"
},

and put this in test.sh:

#!/bin/bash
mkdir mydir/mysubdir

Or, as csvan pointed out in the comment, you can use Node scripts instead of shell scripts:

"scripts": {
    "test": "node test.js"
},

This approach is even better for cross-platform compatibility.

See also:

• Why does `DEBUG=foo node index.js` fails in `scripts` section of `package.json`