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Quite simply, I'm attempting to automate running a nodejs script using cron, however the script itself doesn't seem to be able to run the file. My script is simple:
#!/usr/bin/env node node /var/node/assets/js/update.js However, in running this, it returns that the beginning of the pathing is incorrect:
/home/dev/update.sh:2 node /var/node/assets/js/update.js ^^^ SyntaxError: Unexpected token var at Module._compile (module.js:439:25) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10) at startup (node.js:119:16) at node.js:901:3 Is there something actually wrong with the bash, or does node have a specific way of doing this? I used /bin/env so that I could have the proper form of "node" regardless of version.
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Node. js can run shell commands by using the standard child_process module. If we use the exec() function, our command will run and its output will be available to us in a callback. If we use the spawn() module, its output will be available via event listeners.
It looks like you are trying to run node from within node. The error message came from node and it looks like node was trying to run the command /var/node/assets/js/update.js.
I would make the shebang line specify bash rather than node.
The top line
#!/usr/bin/env node means that what follows should be JavaScript code, not bash.
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