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Billy Moon
Billy Moon

Reputation: 58531

Node.js on Windows Git Bash shebang failure

Windows Git Bash specific problem...

Pretty simple script which takes some user input, and does not echo it to the output. Works fine when called like node secret.js but acts strange when called as ./secret.js, needing a ctrl+c to exit, and echoing the output as you type.

#!/usr/bin/env node

var prompt = require('prompt');

prompt.start();
prompt.colors = false;
prompt.message = '';
prompt.delimiter = ''; 

prompt.get([{
  name: 'secret',
  description: 'tell me your darkest secret: ',
  hidden: true
}], function(err, result){
    console.log('Hey guys! He said "' + result.secret.slice(0, 5) + '..." only kidding, I won\'t tell.');
});

What is a safe way to make script run on all platforms, including git bash?

update: added env result in case it is useful...

IEUser@ie8winxp MINGW32 ~/projects/issue (develop)
$ env
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\IEUser
MANPATH=/mingw32/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man:/share/man:
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\IEUser\Application Data
HOSTNAME=ie8winxp
SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS
TMPDIR=/tmp
OLDPWD=/c/Documents and Settings/IEUser/projects
USERDOMAIN=IE8WINXP
OS=Windows_NT
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
TEMP=/tmp
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
USERNAME=IEUser
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PATH=C:\Documents and Settings\IEUser\projects\issuemd\node_modules\.bin:C:\Documents and Settings\IEUser\projects\issue\node_modules\.bin:C:\Documents and Settings\IEUser\projects\node_modules\.bin:/c/Documents and Settings/IEUser/bin:/mingw32/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/mingw32/bin:/usr/bin:/c/Documents and Settings/IEUser/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/Program Files/nodejs:/c/Documents and Settings/IEUser/Application Data/npm:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl
EXEPATH=C:\Program Files\Git
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
PWD=/c/Documents and Settings/IEUser/projects/issue
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\IEUser
CLIENTNAME=Console
PS1=\[\033]0;$TITLEPREFIX:${PWD//[^[:ascii:]]/?}\007\]\n\[\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[35m\]$MSYSTEM \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[36m\]`__git_ps1`\[\033[0m\]\n$
LOGONSERVER=\\IE8WINXP
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
SSH_ASKPASS=/mingw32/libexec/git-core/git-gui--askpass
SHLVL=1
HOME=/c/Documents and Settings/IEUser
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PLINK_PROTOCOL=ssh
HOMEDRIVE=C:
MSYSTEM=MINGW32
COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
TMP=/tmp
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
PROCESSOR_REVISION=170a
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/mingw32/lib/pkgconfig:/mingw32/share/pkgconfig
ACLOCAL_PATH=/mingw32/share/aclocal:/usr/share/aclocal
INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info:/share/info:
PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
DISPLAY=needs-to-be-defined
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
SESSIONNAME=Console
COMPUTERNAME=IE8WINXP
_=/usr/bin/env

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1409

Answers (1)

Billy Moon
Billy Moon

Reputation: 58531

Turns out cygwin is not supported by node (and I assume git bash too).

Seems that git bash is not a real tty.

Looks like someone did something about it by bundling winpty with git bash.

Solution...

From within git bash, run winpty bash, then rest should work as expected.

Upvotes: 2

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