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BitKoch
BitKoch

Reputation: 31

Missing execSync in nodejs v0.10.25

So i saw the execSync function in the nodejs api documentation.

https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_execsync_command_options

I tried to run something like this.

var executeSync = function(command){
  var child = require('child_process')
  code = child.execSync(command);
  return code;
}

But i get an error:

    code = child.execSync(command);
                 ^
TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'execSync'

So do i get something wrong with the versions ?

nvm ls
    iojs-v3.3.1
         v5.0.0
->       v5.4.0
         system
default -> node (-> v5.4.0)
node -> stable (-> v5.4.0) (default)
stable -> 5.4 (-> v5.4.0) (default)
iojs -> iojs-v3.3 (-> iojs-v3.3.1) (default)

So why can't i use the execSync function ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 409

Answers (1)

robertklep
robertklep

Reputation: 203504

My guess is that you installed nodejs, perhaps on Debian or Ubuntu, which provides an outdated Node (0.10.25).

You then installed nvm to allow you to run more recent versions of Node, but kept on using the nodejs executable instead of the node executable (which is the commonly used name for the Node interpreter; nodejs only exists on some Linux distro's because there's an unrelated node package that had already taken the node name).

In other words: run your code using node, not nodejs.

Upvotes: 1

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