Node script executable not working on Mac : env: node\r: No such file or directory

Question

I have created my node script executable to execute some tasks grunt. On Windows, my node script works fine. But on Mac OS X (Yosemite), it\'s not working.

My node scri

Answer 1

The carriage return inserted by MS-DOS is interpreted as part of the script interpreter name, which is the correct behavior for Un*x systems by the way. Hence, the system looks for a file /usr/bin/node\r instead of /usr/bin/node. As others have pointed out, npm now "fixes" the problem by stripping off the newline character which is a somewhat dubious behavior.

Executable files with a shebang line that has a DOS line ending are corrupt and must be fixed by the author and not by users, npm, or yarn. At the time of this writing, there is little reason to still use DOS line endings, even if you develop on Windows systems. But you should at least fix the files you produce before distributing them to the general public. See https://help.github.com/en/github/using-git/configuring-git-to-handle-line-endings for how to configure git to handle line endings correctly.