Windows command fails postinstall

[EtharAlali]

Hi,

Got a Weird Error when running

npm install -g caniuse-api

The install appears to go OK until it runs postinstall where it results in:

npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/lodash.istypedarray/-/lodash.istypedarray-3.0.2.tgz

> caniuse-api@1.3.0 postinstall C:\[REMOVED]\src\node_modules\caniuse-api
> node -e "require('shelljs/global');if(test('-d', 'dist'))exec('node dist/generate-features.js')"

[eval]:1
"require('shelljs/global');if(test('-d',
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
    at Object.<anonymous> ([eval]-wrapper:6:22)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at evalScript (node.js:532:25)
    at startup (node.js:80:7)
    at node.js:901:3
unbuild caniuse-api@1.3.0
npm ERR! weird error 8
npm ERR! not ok code 0

Hence the weird error :)

The funny thing is this runs fine within node itself. For example running the command straight from the command line works without any issue:

C:\[REMOVED]\src> node -e "require('shelljs/global');if(test('-d', 'dist'))exec('node dist/generate-features.js')"

I've included the relative position in the current working directory so you can see where I am running 'npm install' from.

Any help would be appreciated.

[MoOx]

node + npm version please.

[EtharAlali]

Good call!

A bit behind the times:

node v0.10.13 npm 1.3.2

So I updated both to

node v0.12.7 npm 2.11.3

and it works. Thanks. Closing.