use [path.dirname](http://nodejs.org/api/path.html#path_path_dirname_p)


    // onlyPath should be G:\node-demos\7-handlebars-watch\demo
    var onlyPath = require(&#39;path&#39;).dirname(&#39;G:\\node-demos\\7-node-module\\demo\\config.json&#39;);

Simply install `path` module and use it,

    var path = require(&#39;path&#39;);
    path.dirname(&#39;G:\\node-demos\\7-node-module\\demo\\config.json&#39;)

    // Returns: &#39;G:\node-demos\7-node-module\demo&#39;

`require(&quot;path&quot;).dirname(……)` **breaks** when your path does not explicitly specify its directory.

```javascript
require(&quot;path&quot;).dirname(&quot;./..&quot;)
// &quot;.&quot;
```

-----

You may consider using `require(&quot;path&quot;).join(……, &quot;../&quot;)` instead. It preserves the trailing separator as well.

```javascript
require(&quot;path&quot;).join(&quot;whatever/absolute/or/relative&quot;, &quot;../&quot;)
// &quot;whatever/absolute/or/&quot; (POSIX)
// &quot;whatever\\absolute\\or\\&quot; (Windows)
```
```javascript
require(&quot;path&quot;).join(&quot;.&quot;, &quot;../&quot;)
// &quot;../&quot; (POSIX)
// &quot;..\\&quot; (Windows)
```
```javascript
require(&quot;path&quot;).join(&quot;..&quot;, &quot;../&quot;)
// &quot;../../&quot; (POSIX)
// &quot;..\\..\\&quot; (Windows)
```
```javascript
require(&quot;path&quot;).win32.join(&quot;C:\\&quot;, &quot;../&quot;)
// &quot;C:\\&quot;
```


How do I run a python script from within the IDLE interactive shell? 

The following throws an error:

    &gt;&gt;&gt; python helloworld.py
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

How to run a python script from IDLE interactive shell?

I have code like the following:

    var req = require(&#39;request&#39;);
    
    req.post(&#39;someUrl&#39;,
       { form: { username: &#39;user&#39;, password: &#39;&#39;, opaque: &#39;someValue&#39;, logintype: &#39;1&#39;}, },
       function (e, r, body) {
          console.log(body);
    });

How can I set headers for this?
I need user-agent, content-type and probably something else to be in the headers:

    headers = { 
       &#39;User-Agent&#39;: &#39;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.110 Safari/537.36&#39;,
       &#39;Content-Type&#39; : &#39;application/x-www-form-urlencoded&#39; 
    };

I&#39;ve tried in multiple ways but I can either send header or form-data, failed to send both.


Node.js: How to send headers with form data using request module?

Is there a way to get the path to a folder that holds a particular file.

    fs.realpathSync(&#39;config.json&#39;, []);

returns something like

    G:\node-demos\7-node-module\demo\config.json

I just need

    G:\node-demos\7-node-module\demo\ 
    or
    G:\node-demos\7-node-module\demo\
Is there any api for this or will I need to process the string?
    

Node js Get folder path from a file

Is there a way to get the path to a folder that holds a particular file.
<pre><code class="hljs language-ini">fs.realpathSync('config.json', []);
</code></pre>
returns something like
<pre><code class="hljs language-arduino">G:\node-demos\7-node-module\demo\config.json
</code></pre>
I just need
<pre><code class="hljs language-vbnet">G:\node-demos\7-node-module\demo\ 
or
G:\node-demos\7-node-module\demo\
</code></pre>
Is there any api for this or will I need to process the string?

I have recently been looking around, to find a good way to communicate between nodeJS and PHP. Here is the idea : nodeJS is still quite new, and it can be kind of tricky to develop a full application only with it. Moreover, you may need it only for one module of your project, like realtime notifications, chat, ... And you want to manage all the other stuff with PHP, because it is probably more easy for you (and you can take advantage of the existing frameworks, like CodeIgniter or Symfony).

I would like to have an easy solution ; I don&#39;t want to use cURL, or a third server to communicate between Apache and Node servers. What I want is to be able to catch events from node in simple Javascript, client-side.

I didn&#39;t find any answers that where complete, most of the time client-side was running by the node server and so not applicable in my case. So I crawled all the possible topics, and finally find my answer ; I&#39;ll try to share this, and to have a point where it&#39;s all clear.

Hope this can help some people ! ;)

How to integrate nodeJS + Socket.IO and PHP?

What would be the idiomatic way to do something like a while loop with promises. So:

do something
if the condition still stands do it again
repeat
then do something else.

    dosomething.then(possilblydomoresomethings).then(finish)

I&#39;ve done it this way I was wondering if there were any better/more idomatic ways?

    var q = require(&#39;q&#39;);
    
    var index = 1;
    
    var useless =  function(){
            var currentIndex = index;
            console.log(currentIndex)
            var deferred = q.defer();
            setTimeout(function(){
                if(currentIndex &gt; 10)
                    deferred.resolve(false);
                else deferred.resolve(true);
                },500);
            return deferred.promise;
        }
    
    var control = function(cont){
            var deferred = q.defer();
            if(cont){
                    index = index + 1;
                    useless().then(control).then(function(){
                            deferred.resolve();
                        });
                }
             else deferred.resolve();
            return deferred.promise;
        }
    
    var chain = useless().then(control).then(function(){console.log(&#39;done&#39;)});

Output:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
done

While loop with promises

I am new to node.js, so I have a feeling that this will be something silly that I have overlooked, but I haven&#39;t been able to find an answer that fixes my problem. What I&#39;m trying to do is create a path that will create a new child object, add it to the parent&#39;s array of children, then return the child object to the requester. The problem that I am running into is that if I pass the string id into findById, node crashes with

&gt;TypeError: Object {} has no method &#39;cast&#39;

If I try to pass in an ObjectId instead, I get

&gt;CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value &quot;[object Object]&quot; at path &quot;_id&quot;

Here is a rough outline of my code:

    var mongoose = require(&#39;mongoose&#39;);
    var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
    var ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId; //Have also tried Schema.Types.ObjectId, mongoose.ObjectId
    
    mongoose.connect(&#39;mongodb://user:password@server:port/database&#39;);
    
    app.get(&#39;/myClass/:Id/childClass/create&#39;, function(request, result) {
      var id = new ObjectId(request.params.Id);
      MyClass.findById(id).exec( function(err, myClass) {
        if (err || !myClass) { result.send(&quot;error: &quot; + err + &quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot; + JSON.stringify(id) || (&quot;object &#39;&quot; + request.params.Id + &quot;&#39; not found: &quot; + id)); return; }
        var child = ChildClass();
        myClass.Children.addToSet(child);
        myClass.save();
        result.send(child);
      });
    });

If I execute this code with the path &quot;/myClass/51c35e5ced18cb901d000001/childClass/create&quot;, this is the output of the code:

&gt;error: CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value &quot;[object Object]&quot; at path &quot;_id&quot;
&gt;{&quot;path&quot;:&quot;51c35e5ced18cb901d000001&quot;,&quot;instance&quot;:&quot;ObjectID&quot;,&quot;validators&quot;:[],&quot;setters&quot;:[],&quot;getters&quot;:[],&quot;_index&quot;:null}

I&#39;ve tried using findOne and passing in {_id:id} instead, but this appears to be exactly what findById does. I&#39;ve tried the different classes for ObjectId that I&#39;ve seen listed on other sites. I&#39;ve tried calling ObjectId() like a function instead of a constructor and that returns undefined. At this point, I&#39;m running out of ideas and it doesn&#39;t seem that googling for an answer is helping. Any ideas on what I&#39;m doing wrong?

Also, like I said, I&#39;m new to node/Mongo/Mongoose/Express, so if there is a better way to accomplish my goal, please let me know. I appreciate all feedback.

**EDIT:**

After the workaround from Peter Lyons, I googled another error that I was running into and found findByIdAndUpdate, which works as expected and does exactly what I was hoping to do. I&#39;m still not sure why findById and findOne were giving me such issues and I&#39;m curious to know (maybe a bug report needs to be filed), so I&#39;ll leave this open in case someone else has an answer.

Mongoose: CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value &quot;[object Object]&quot; at path &quot;_id&quot;

I&#39;m running an Express.js application using Socket.io for a chat webapp
and I get the following error randomly around 5 times during 24h.
The node process is wrapped in forever and it restarts itself immediately.

The problem is that restarting Express kicks my users out of their rooms 
and nobody wants that.

The web server is proxied by HAProxy. There are no socket stability issues, 
just using websockets and flashsockets transports.
I cannot reproduce this on purpose.

This is the error with Node `v0.10.11`:

```
    events.js:72
            throw er; // Unhandled &#39;error&#39; event
                  ^
    Error: read ECONNRESET     //alternatively it s a &#39;write&#39;
        at errnoException (net.js:900:11)
        at TCP.onread (net.js:555:19)
    error: Forever detected script exited with code: 8
    error: Forever restarting script for 2 time
```

**EDIT (2013-07-22)**

Added both socket.io client error handler and the uncaught exception handler.
Seems that this one catches the error:

```
    process.on(&#39;uncaughtException&#39;, function (err) {
      console.error(err.stack);
      console.log(&quot;Node NOT Exiting...&quot;);
    });
```

So I suspect it&#39;s not a Socket.io issue but an HTTP request to another server 
that I do or a MySQL/Redis connection. The problem is that the error stack 
doesn&#39;t help me identify my code issue. Here is the log output:

```
    Error: read ECONNRESET
        at errnoException (net.js:900:11)
        at TCP.onread (net.js:555:19)
  ```

How do I know what causes this? How do I get more out of the error?

Ok, not very verbose but here&#39;s the stacktrace with Longjohn:

```
    Exception caught: Error ECONNRESET
    { [Error: read ECONNRESET]
      code: &#39;ECONNRESET&#39;,
      errno: &#39;ECONNRESET&#39;,
      syscall: &#39;read&#39;,
      __cached_trace__:
       [ { receiver: [Object],
           fun: [Function: errnoException],
           pos: 22930 },
         { receiver: [Object], fun: [Function: onread], pos: 14545 },
         {},
         { receiver: [Object],
           fun: [Function: fireErrorCallbacks],
           pos: 11672 },
         { receiver: [Object], fun: [Function], pos: 12329 },
         { receiver: [Object], fun: [Function: onread], pos: 14536 } ],
      __previous__:
       { [Error]
         id: 1061835,
         location: &#39;fireErrorCallbacks (net.js:439)&#39;,
         __location__: &#39;process.nextTick&#39;,
         __previous__: null,
         __trace_count__: 1,
         __cached_trace__: [ [Object], [Object], [Object] ] } }
```

Here I serve the flash socket policy file:

```
    net = require(&quot;net&quot;)
    net.createServer( (socket) =&gt;
      socket.write(&quot;&lt;?xml version=\&quot;1.0\&quot;?&gt;\n&quot;)
      socket.write(&quot;&lt;!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM \&quot;http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd\&quot;&gt;\n&quot;)
      socket.write(&quot;&lt;cross-domain-policy&gt;\n&quot;)
      socket.write(&quot;&lt;allow-access-from domain=\&quot;*\&quot; to-ports=\&quot;*\&quot;/&gt;\n&quot;)
      socket.write(&quot;&lt;/cross-domain-policy&gt;\n&quot;)
      socket.end()
    ).listen(843)
```

Can this be the cause?

How do I debug error ECONNRESET in Node.js?

This is a pretty straight forward question, but I haven&#39;t found anything on Google. I&#39;m looking for documentation on the request parameter in Node.js&#39;s create server function, but I haven&#39;t been able to find anything.

    http.createServer(function(request, response){
      console.log(JSON.stringify(request));
    });

Debugging with JSON.stringify() gives me an error, that the object is circular and the program stops. I&#39;ve seen different things like `request.url`, or `request.body`, but is there a page documenting all of the request functions and parameters? It seems like it should be easy to find, I just can&#39;t seem to find it.

I tried it again, and it turns out just doing `console.log(request)` writes out all of the data from the request. Here it is just as a reference:

    ondata: [Function],
         _httpMessage:
          { domain: null,
            _events: [Object],
            _maxListeners: 10,
            output: [],
            outputEncodings: [],
            writable: true,
            _last: false,
            chunkedEncoding: false,
            shouldKeepAlive: true,
            useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
            sendDate: true,
            _hasBody: true,
            _trailer: &#39;&#39;,
            finished: false,
            _hangupClose: false,
            socket: [Circular],
            connection: [Circular] } },
      connection:
       { _connecting: false,
         _handle:
          { fd: null,
            writeQueueSize: 0,
            owner: [Circular],
            onread: [Function: onread],
            reading: true },
         _readableState:
          { highWaterMark: 16384,
            buffer: [],
            length: 0,
            pipes: null,
            pipesCount: 0,
            flowing: false,
            ended: false,
            endEmitted: false,
            reading: true,
            calledRead: true,
            sync: false,
            needReadable: true,
            emittedReadable: false,
            readableListening: false,
            objectMode: false,
            defaultEncoding: &#39;utf8&#39;,
            ranOut: false,
            awaitDrain: 0,
            readingMore: false,
            decoder: null,
            encoding: null },
         readable: true,
         domain: null,
         _events:
          { end: [Object],
            finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
            _socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
            drain: [Function: ondrain],
            timeout: [Function],
            error: [Function],
            close: [Object] },
         _maxListeners: 10,
         _writableState:
          { highWaterMark: 16384,
            objectMode: false,
            needDrain: false,
            ending: false,
            ended: false,
            finished: false,
            decodeStrings: false,
            defaultEncoding: &#39;utf8&#39;,
            length: 0,
            writing: false,
            sync: true,
            bufferProcessing: false,
            onwrite: [Function],
            writecb: null,
            writelen: 0,
            buffer: [] },
         writable: true,
         allowHalfOpen: true,
         onend: [Function],
         destroyed: false,
         errorEmitted: false,
         bytesRead: 357,
         _bytesDispatched: 0,
         _pendingData: null,
         _pendingEncoding: &#39;&#39;,
         server:
          { domain: null,
            _events: [Object],
            _maxListeners: 10,
            _connections: 1,
            connections: [Getter/Setter],
            _handle: [Object],
            _usingSlaves: false,
            _slaves: [],
            allowHalfOpen: true,
            httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
            timeout: 120000,
            _connectionKey: &#39;4:0.0.0.0:1337&#39; },
         _idleTimeout: 120000,
         _idleNext:
          { _idleNext: [Circular],
            _idlePrev: [Circular],
            msecs: 120000,
            ontimeout: [Function: listOnTimeout] },
         _idlePrev:
          { _idleNext: [Circular],
            _idlePrev: [Circular],
            msecs: 120000,
            ontimeout: [Function: listOnTimeout] },
         _idleStart: 1371952289619,
         parser:
          { _headers: [],
            _url: &#39;&#39;,
            onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
            onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
            onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
            onMessageComplete: [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
            socket: [Circular],
            incoming: [Circular],
            maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
            onIncoming: [Function] },
         ondata: [Function],
         _httpMessage:
          { domain: null,
            _events: [Object],
            _maxListeners: 10,
            output: [],
            outputEncodings: [],
            writable: true,
            _last: false,
            chunkedEncoding: false,
            shouldKeepAlive: true,
            useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
            sendDate: true,
            _hasBody: true,
            _trailer: &#39;&#39;,
            finished: false,
            _hangupClose: false,
            socket: [Circular],
            connection: [Circular] } },
      httpVersion: &#39;1.1&#39;,
      complete: false,
      headers:
       { host: &#39;localhost:1337&#39;,
         connection: &#39;keep-alive&#39;,
         &#39;cache-control&#39;: &#39;max-age=0&#39;,
         accept: &#39;text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8&#39;,
         &#39;user-agent&#39;: &#39;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
     Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36&#39;,
         &#39;accept-encoding&#39;: &#39;gzip,deflate,sdch&#39;,
         &#39;accept-language&#39;: &#39;en-US,en;q=0.8,ja;q=0.6&#39; },
      trailers: {},
      _pendings: [],
      _pendingIndex: 0,
      url: &#39;/&#39;,
      method: &#39;GET&#39;,
      statusCode: null,
      client:
       { _connecting: false,
         _handle:
          { fd: null,
            writeQueueSize: 0,
            owner: [Circular],
            onread: [Function: onread],
            reading: true },
         _readableState:
          { highWaterMark: 16384,
            buffer: [],
            length: 0,
            pipes: null,
            pipesCount: 0,
            flowing: false,
            ended: false,
            endEmitted: false,
            reading: true,
            calledRead: true,
            sync: false,
            needReadable: true,
            emittedReadable: false,
            readableListening: false,
            objectMode: false,
            defaultEncoding: &#39;utf8&#39;,
            ranOut: false,
            awaitDrain: 0,
            readingMore: false,
            decoder: null,
            encoding: null },
         readable: true,
         domain: null,
         _events:
          { end: [Object],
            finish: [Function: onSocketFinish],
            _socketEnd: [Function: onSocketEnd],
            drain: [Function: ondrain],
            timeout: [Function],
            error: [Function],
            close: [Object] },
         _maxListeners: 10,
         _writableState:
          { highWaterMark: 16384,
            objectMode: false,
            needDrain: false,
            ending: false,
            ended: false,
            finished: false,
            decodeStrings: false,
            defaultEncoding: &#39;utf8&#39;,
            length: 0,
            writing: false,
            sync: true,
            bufferProcessing: false,
            onwrite: [Function],
            writecb: null,
            writelen: 0,
            buffer: [] },
         writable: true,
         allowHalfOpen: true,
         onend: [Function],
         destroyed: false,
         errorEmitted: false,
         bytesRead: 357,
         _bytesDispatched: 0,
         _pendingData: null,
         _pendingEncoding: &#39;&#39;,
         server:
          { domain: null,
            _events: [Object],
            _maxListeners: 10,
            _connections: 1,
            connections: [Getter/Setter],
            _handle: [Object],
            _usingSlaves: false,
            _slaves: [],
            allowHalfOpen: true,
            httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
            timeout: 120000,
            _connectionKey: &#39;4:0.0.0.0:1337&#39; },
         _idleTimeout: 120000,
         _idleNext:
          { _idleNext: [Circular],
            _idlePrev: [Circular],
            msecs: 120000,
            ontimeout: [Function: listOnTimeout] },
         _idlePrev:
          { _idleNext: [Circular],
            _idlePrev: [Circular],
            msecs: 120000,
            ontimeout: [Function: listOnTimeout] },
         _idleStart: 1371952289619,
         parser:
          { _headers: [],
            _url: &#39;&#39;,
            onHeaders: [Function: parserOnHeaders],
            onHeadersComplete: [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
            onBody: [Function: parserOnBody],
            onMessageComplete: [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
            socket: [Circular],
            incoming: [Circular],
            maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
            onIncoming: [Function] },
         ondata: [Function],
         _httpMessage:
          { domain: null,
            _events: [Object],
            _maxListeners: 10,
            output: [],
            outputEncodings: [],
            writable: true,
            _last: false,
            chunkedEncoding: false,
            shouldKeepAlive: true,
            useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
            sendDate: true,
            _hasBody: true,
            _trailer: &#39;&#39;,
            finished: false,
            _hangupClose: false,
            socket: [Circular],
            connection: [Circular] } },
      _consuming: false,
      _dumped: false,
      httpVersionMajor: 1,
      httpVersionMinor: 1,
      upgrade: false }


Node.js request object documentation?

The encryption tool of gnuPG package gpg prompts for passphrase using a GUI dialog box when invoked by a regular user, however when invoked by root it prompts on CLI. How to make it use the CLI even when invoked by a regular user.
 version:GnuPG 1.4.12 

How to make gpg prompt for passphrase on CLI

I know that in a php script:

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

will follow redirects. Is there a way to follow redirects with command line cURL?

Is there a way to follow redirects with command line cURL?

I ran this command to install globally *PHPUnit*:

    composer global require &#39;phpunit/phpunit=3.7.*&#39;

Now I want to uninstall globally *PHPUnit*.

Any ideas?


How to remove globally a package from Composer?

I am trying to change the working directory of my Node.js script when it is run from a bin script. I have something like the following:

    #!/usr/bin/env node
    process.chdir(&#39;/Users&#39;)

When I then run this file with `./bin/nodefile`, it exits, but the working directory of the current shell context has not changed. I have also tried [shelljs][1], but that does not work either.

What is the best way to do this? I understand it&#39;s working but it&#39;s just in a separate process.

  [1]: https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs

Change working directory in my current shell context when running Node script

I am in the process of porting a CLI library from Ruby over to Node.js. In my code I execute several third party binaries when necessary. I am not sure how best to accomplish this in Node.

Here&#39;s an example in Ruby where I call PrinceXML to convert a file to a PDF:

    cmd = system(&quot;prince -v builds/pdf/book.html -o builds/pdf/book.pdf&quot;)

What is the equivalent code in Node?

Execute a command line binary with Node.js

I am a nodejs programmer . Now I have a table of data that I want to save in Excel File format . How do I go about doing this ? 

I found a few Node libraries . But most of them are Excel Parsers rather than Excel Writers .I am using a Linux Server . Hence need something that can run on Linux . Please let me know  if there are any helpful libraries that you know of . 

Or is there a way I can convert a CSV file to an xls file ( programmatically ) ?

How to create an Excel File with Nodejs?

Trying to install modules from GitHub results in this error:

&gt; ENOENT error on package.json.

Easily reproduced using express:

`npm install https://github.com/visionmedia/express` throws error.

`npm install express ` works.

Why can&#39;t I install from GitHub?

Here is the console output:

    npm http GET https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git
    npm http 200 https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git
    npm ERR! not a package /home/guym/tmp/npm-32312/1373176518024-0.6586997057311237/tmp.tgz
    npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open &#39;/home/guym/tmp/npm-32312/1373176518024-0.6586997057311237/package/package.json&#39;
    npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
    npm ERR!     &lt;http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues&gt;
    npm ERR! or email it to:
    npm ERR!     &lt;npm-@googlegroups.com&gt;

    npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-23-generic
    npm ERR! command &quot;/usr/bin/node&quot; &quot;/usr/bin/npm&quot; &quot;install&quot; &quot;https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git&quot;
    npm ERR! cwd /home/guym/dev_env/projects_GIT/proj/somename
    npm ERR! node -v v0.10.10
    npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.25
    npm ERR! path /home/guym/tmp/npm-32312/1373176518024-0.6586997057311237/package/package.json
    npm ERR! code ENOENT
    npm ERR! errno 34
    npm ERR!
    npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
    npm ERR!     /home/guym/dev_env/projects_GIT/proj/somename/npm-debug.log
    npm ERR! not ok code 0




How to install an npm package from GitHub directly

**How do I list the *user-installed / envirorment*  package ONLY in `npm`?** 

When I do `npm -g list` it outputs every package and their dependencies, instead I&#39;d like to see the packages installed in the **current working project or envirorment.**

How to list npm user-installed packages?

Saw the following error when running an `npm install` which required `node-gyp`... but could be triggered by anything which requires `xcode-select`.

&gt; xcode-select: error: tool &#39;xcodebuild&#39; requires Xcode, but active
&gt; developer directory &#39;/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools&#39; is a command
&gt; line tools instance

What is the problem?



xcode-select active developer directory error

I am trying to globally install an npm module I just published. Every time I try to install, either from npm or the folder, I get this error.

    npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, chmod &#39;/usr/local/lib/node_modules/takeapeek/lib/cmd.js&#39;
    npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
    npm ERR!     &lt;http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues&gt;
    npm ERR! or email it to:
    npm ERR!     &lt;npm-@googlegroups.com&gt;
    
    npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-19-generic
    npm ERR! command &quot;node&quot; &quot;/usr/local/bin/npm&quot; &quot;install&quot; &quot;-g&quot; &quot;takeapeek&quot;
    npm ERR! cwd /home/giodamlio
    npm ERR! node -v v0.10.6
    npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.6
    npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/takeapeek/lib/cmd.js
    npm ERR! code ENOENT
    npm ERR! errno 34
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
    npm ERR!     /home/giodamlio/npm-debug.log
    npm ERR! not ok code 0

I am using sudo and I have triple checked everything in the package everything should work. I did some searching around, and saw a couple of similer cases none of which have been resolved. Here is what I tried.

 - Upgrade npm (`sudo npm install -g npm`)
 - Clear the global npm cache (`sudo npm cache clear`)
 - Clear the user npm cache (`npm cache clear`)

I noticed that the error had to do with the file I am linking to the path, specifically when npm tried to do a chmod. That shouldn&#39;t be a problem, my `lib/cli.js` has normal permissions, and npm has superuser permissions during this install.

After digging through the npm docs I found an option that would stop npm from making the bin links(`--no-bin-links`), when I tried the install with it, it worked fine.

So what&#39;s the deal? Is this some [weird fringe case bug][1] that has no solution yet?

**Edit: For reference, [here][2] is the module I uploaded**


  [1]: https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/3311#issuecomment-16011860
  [2]: https://github.com/giodamelio/takeapeek

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