Gulp command not found after install

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I installed gulp globally  and it looks like it worked because it ran this code    -- tildify 0 2 0  -- interpret 0 3 5  -- pretty-hrtime 0 2 1  -- deprecated 0 0 1  -- archy 0 0 2  -- minimist 0 2 0  -- semver 2 3 2  -- orchestrator 0 3 7  stream-consume 0 1 0  sequencify 0 0 7  end-of-stream 0 1 5   -- chalk 0 5 1  escape-string-regexp 1 0 1  ansi-styles 1 1 0  supports-color 0 2 0  strip-ansi 0 3 0  has-ansi 0 1 0   -- gulp-util 2 2 20  lodash  reinterpolate 2 4 1  dateformat 1 0 8-1 2 3  vinyl 0 2 3  through2 0 5 1  multipipe 0 1 1  lodash template 2 4 1   -- liftoff 0 12 0  extend 1 2 1  minimist 0 1 0  resolve 0 7 4  findup-sync 0 1 3   -- vinyl-fs 0 3 5  graceful-fs 3 0 2  lodash 2 4 1  mkdirp 0 5 0  strip-bom 0 3 1  vinyl 0 2 3  through2 0 5 1  glob-watcher 0 0 6  glob-stream 3 1 14    But when I type gulp it says -bash  gulp  command not found  Any idea what s going on

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I got this working on Win10 using a combination of the answers from above and elsewhere. Posting here for others and future me.

I followed the instructions from here: https://gulpjs.com/docs/en/getting-started/quick-start but on the last step after typing gulp --version I got the message -bash: gulp: command not found

To fix this:

I added %AppData%\npm to my Path environment variable
Closed all gitbash (cmd, powershell, etc...) and restarted gitbash.
Then gulp --version worked

Also, found the below for reasons why not to install gulp globally and how to remove it (not sure if this is advisable though):

what does gulp-"cli" stands for?

How to uninstall Gulp CLI from NPM globally?

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I had similar problem I did the following steps and it worked Go to mac terminal and execute the commands   1 npm config set prefix  usr local  2 sudo chown -R   whoami    npm config get prefix   lib node modules bin share   This two commands will set the npm path right and you no longer have to use sudo in npm  Next uninstall the gulp   npm uninstall gulp Installl gulp again without sudo  npm install gulp -g   This should work

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If you re using tcsh  which is my default shell on Mac OS X   you probably just need to type rehash into the shell just after the install completes   npm install -g gulp   followed immediately by   rehash   Otherwise  if this is your very first time installing gulp  your shell may not recognize that there s a new executable installed -- so you either need to start a new shell  or type rehash in the current shell    This is basically a one-time thing for each command you install globally

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I had this problem with getting  command not found  after install but I was installed into  usr local as described in the solution above    My problem seemed to be caused by me running the install with sudo  I did the following    Removing gulp again with sudo Changing the owner of  usr local lib node modules to my user Installing gulp again without sudo   npm install gulp -g

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Turns out that npm was installed in the wrong directory so I had to change the    npm config prefix    by running this code   npm config set prefix  usr local   Then I reinstalled gulp globally  with the -g param  and it worked properly   This article is where I found the solution  http   webbb be blog command-not-found-node-npm

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Not sure why the question was down-voted  but I had the same issue and following the blog post recommended solve the issue  One thing I should add is that in my case  once I ran   npm config set prefix  usr local   I confirmed the npm root -g was pointing to  usr local lib node modules npm  but in order to install gulp in  usr local lib node modules  I had to use sudo   sudo npm install gulp -g

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I realize that this is an old thread  but for Future-Me  and posterity  I figured I should add my two-cents around the  quot running npm as sudo quot  discussion  Disclaimer  I do not use Windows  These steps have only been proven on non-windows machines  both virtual and physical  You can avoid the need to use sudo by changing the permission to npm s default directory   How to  change permissions in order to run npm without sudo Step 1  Find out where npm s default directory is   To do this  open your terminal and run  npm config get prefix  Step 2  Proceed  based on the output of that command   Scenario One  npm s default directory is  usr local For most users  your output will show that npm s default directory is  usr local  in which case you can skip to step 4 to update the permissions for the directory  Scenario Two  npm s default directory is  usr or  Users YOURUSERNAME node modules or  Something Else FishyLooking If you find that npm s default directory is not  usr local  but is instead something you can t explain or looks fishy  you should go to step 3 to change the default directory for npm  or you risk messing up your permissions on a much larger scale   Step 3  Change npm s default directory   There are a couple of ways to go about this  including creating a directory specifically for global installations and then adding that directory to your  PATH  but since  usr local is probably already in your path  I think it s simpler to just change npm s default directory to that  Like so   npm config set prefix  usr local  For more info on the other approaches I mentioned  see the npm docs here     Step 4  Update the permissions on npm s default directory   Once you ve verified that npm s default directory is in a sensible location  you can update the permissions on it using the command  sudo chown -R   whoami    npm config get prefix   lib node modules bin share    Now you should be able to run npm  lt whatever gt  without sudo  Note  You may need to restart your terminal in order for these changes to take effect

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If you want to leave your prefix intact  just export it s bin dir to your PATH variable  export PATH  HOME your-path bin  PATH I added this line to my  HOME  profile and sourced it   Setting prefix to  usr local makes you use sudo  so I like to have it in my user dir  You can check your prefix with npm prefix -g

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In my case adding sudo before npm install solved gulp command not found problem  sudo npm install

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You need to do this npm install --global gulp  It works for me and i also had this problem  It because you didn t install globally this package

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If you are on Mac run use root privilege  sudo npm install gulp-cli --global  To check if it s installed run   gulp -v   CLI version  2 2 0  The output      Local version   Unknown

[macos] Gulp command not found after install

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