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I am currently learning Node.JS on my windows machine. I've got my path set up and I've done quite a bit of development already (running all my scripts in cygwin). Finally, it's time for me to run these directly instead of calling 'node --harmony script.js'. The tutorial I'm using says to attach

#!usr/bin/env node --harmony

at the top of the file. Of course, this doesn't exactly work. My path variable says that the node program itself is in:

D:\NodeJS\

I've tried several different ways to use the Shebang to no avail. Every time I run the script, it announces:

./dbcli.js: line 1: #!D:/NodeJS/: no such file or directory

Anyone know how this is supposed to be used? Here's the code so far: 

#!d:/NodeJS/node --harmony const request = require("request"), options = { method: process.argv[2] || 'GET', url: 'http://localhost:5984/' + (process.argv[3] || '') }; request(options, function (err, res, body) { if (err) { throw Error(err); } else { console.log(res.statusCode, JSON.parse(body)); } });

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I found the answer and it turned out to be a bizarre one. Since I was developing in Visual Studio, the files were encoded as UTF-8 With BOM. As a result, it was getting a whole lot of nonsense in the file while attempting to run it directly.

The above code :

#!d:/NodeJS/node --harmony const request = require("request"), options = { method: process.argv[2] || 'GET', url: 'http://localhost:5984/' + (process.argv[3] || '') }; request(options, function (err, res, body) { if (err) { throw Error(err); } else { console.log(res.statusCode, JSON.parse(body)); } });

was exactly what I needed, but, since it was incorrectly encoded, it never worked. For the time being, I'm editing all scripts in Visual Studio and, for the ones I want to run directly, I'll open Notepad++ and switch over the encoding (until I find a better way).

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This doesn't solve my problem. I get this error: 'myTool' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

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