Fails when running the preinstall script

[thibmaek]

 → apm install modular-snippets
Installing modular-snippets to /Users/thibaultmaekelbergh/.atom/packages ✗

> modular-snippets@0.1.0 preinstall /private/var/folders/sl/n559hh3n59316hvw2r8_zjtr0000gn/T/apm-install-dir-11661-26231-1nn9h6g/node_modules/modular-snippets
> cd "${ATOM_HOME:-~/.atom}" && mkdir -p snippets

sh: line 0: cd: ~/.atom: No such file or directory
npm ERR! Darwin 15.5.0
npm ERR! argv "/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/node" "/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js" "--globalconfig" "/Users/thibaultmaekelbergh/.atom/.apm/.apmrc" "--userconfig" "/Users/thibaultmaekelbergh/.atom/.apmrc" "install" "/private/var/folders/sl/n559hh3n59316hvw2r8_zjtr0000gn/T/d-11661-26231-19h22rd/package.tgz" "--target=0.36.8" "--arch=x64"
npm ERR! node v0.10.40
npm ERR! npm  v2.13.3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! modular-snippets@0.1.0 preinstall: `cd "${ATOM_HOME:-~/.atom}" && mkdir -p snippets`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the modular-snippets@0.1.0 preinstall script 'cd "${ATOM_HOME:-~/.atom}" && mkdir -p snippets'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the modular-snippets package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     cd "${ATOM_HOME:-~/.atom}" && mkdir -p snippets
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls modular-snippets
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /private/var/folders/sl/n559hh3n59316hvw2r8_zjtr0000gn/T/apm-install-dir-11661-26231-1nn9h6g/npm-debug.log

However, cd ~/.atom works. Also works when exporting an env to the shell first with export ATOM_HOME=~/.atom

[danielbayley]

@thibmaek That's odd 😕 Are you on Windows? Can you run cd "${ATOM_HOME:-~/.atom}" && mkdir -p snippets directly on the command line without error?

[thibmaek]

Nope, on OS X. Running that command without the mkdir outputs:

 → cd "${ATOM_HOME:-~/.atom}"
-bash: cd: ~/.atom: No such file or directory

Your issue is most likely due to wrapping it in quotes. Running without the quotes work just fine, let me PR this to fix it.

[danielbayley]

Ah of course; the tilde ~ won't be expanded inside quotes. There should be a :facepalm: emoji…

The quotes are necessary though in case of spaces in the file path, for example I have ATOM_HOME set to ~/Library/Application Support/Atom.

So the solution is mkdir -p "${ATOM_HOME:-$HOME/.atom}/snippets".

[danielbayley]

@thibmaek Looks like I beat you to it 😄. Cheers though… should work now?

[Bogdan808]

This problem is basically not solved. Sorry, waiting for the updates for Windows

[Bogdan808]

I guess that is not generated "ATOM_HOME"

[thibmaek]

It's about 50% solved since it won't support Windows, but should work for everything else. Shouldn't be too hard finding the equivalent command for mkdir for Windows and submitting a PR though. Problem is that that $ATOM_HOME env var is not available on the Windows shell, since it's a UNIX bash one (I think)

[Bogdan808]

@thibmaek , Thanks for the feedback. To me very important file organization of the snippets. Had to go back to sublimeText. Sadness. :(