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Nikhil Rane
Nikhil Rane

Reputation: 103

node.js does not respect all paths in $PATH variable

This question is related to Nodejs Child Process with Unix Executable.

However I could not find a good solution and thanks to my reputation points, I am unable to post a comment there.

To explain my problem, I have some of my own executables which I need to execute from node.js. The path for these executables is already set in the PATH variable. Hence, I can run my executables without any path-prefix from Terminal.

Inspite of that, node.js receives process.env.PATH set to following value:

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

I tried appending the path to it before spawning the process:

process.env.PATH = process.env.PATH + ":<path_to_my_executables>"

but the process exits with 127 Shell code which is "command not found" if I correctly remember.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1012

Answers (1)

Nikhil Rane
Nikhil Rane

Reputation: 103

Okay, I got it work using a shell script. Definitely there must be a better solution to this.

I exported the required paths to my executable (and its dependencies) in the shell script first and then started execution. Hence the shell script structure is something like:

export JAVA_HOME=<java_path>
export EXECUTABLES_HOME=<executables_path>
export PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$EXECUTABLES_HOME"
<execute_required_executable> <arguments>

If someone has a better solution, please do let me know!

Upvotes: 1

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