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Asked: 2026-06-16T17:17:56+00:00

I’m having some difficulty installing Node and Coffeescript. I have installed node using homebrew

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I’m having some difficulty installing Node and Coffeescript. I have installed node using homebrew and then I have successfully installed NPM. I have tried to install Coffeescript from NPM and it appears to have worked but then I cannot run coffee

localserver:Documents x$ sudo npm -g install coffee-script
Password:
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script
/usr/local/share/npm/bin/coffee -> /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee
/usr/local/share/npm/bin/cake -> /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/cake
coffee-script@1.4.0 /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/coffee-script
localserver:Documents x$ coffee
-bash: coffee: command not found
localserver:Documents x$

Is there some path environment variable that I need to set for this? Even if I navigate to /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee I cannot run it from here.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like npm doesn’t add coffee’s directory to the PATH. You can fix it with the following:

    export PATH=/usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/:$PATH

    I’m quite sure there must be a better way though. But I don’t know enough OSX to answer.

    If you want this change to be permanent, add the line to your ~/.profile file.

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