Node and Grunt display node identifier message instead of executing

Question

I have installed node on my machine and have two executables, node.exe and nodejs.exe in my directory. Through the NPM I have installed grunt and jshint for grunt; following this guide:

http://strongloop.com/strongblog/use-grunt-js-and-the-power-of-javascript-to-automating-repetitive-tasks/

When I try and run "grunt" "node" or "grunt jshint" into the windows command prompt or Git Bash then I recieve the following response:

The node identifier for <machine number> is <id number>

I have in my path the location to the \nodejs\node.exe file

I do not have admin or root access to my machine, but can put requests in to add permissions or extra items to the Path. However, I was able to get JSHint to work in Sublime Text by specifying the node path as "nodejs/nodejs.exe"

Would changing my path to nodejs.exe instead fix this; or is there a deeper issue into the setup I have configured that would be causing this problem?

Answer 1

check your system %PATH% variable (echo %PATH%). Most certainly there is another application called node.bat, node.cmd or node.exe that is in your PATH before nodejs and thats why the system finds this first. I'm 99% sure that this is not the output from nodejs

if you have access to your path try to prepend the nodejs path