npm install error `not foundram Files/nodejs/npm: 3: /mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/npm:`

Question

I have installed Ubuntu Bash on Windows. I already have nodejs and npm on my windows machine at C:\\Program Files\\nodejs. In the bash she

Answer 1

I received this error when I modified my "~/.bashrc" file to shorten up the bash directory.

At first I had:

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
            PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\W\[\033[00m\]\$ '
    else
                PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u\h:\W\$'
        fi

....But then could not run any node operation. I rolled it back and the error stopped happening.

After some troubleshooting, I was able to fix the error by adding ~ before the $ on PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u\h:\W\~$