codeceptjs init | Error: The system cannot find the path specified

[tamj0rd2]

What are you trying to achieve?

I am trying to initialise codeceptjs by running codeceptjs init.

Here's what I did:

> npm i codeceptjs-webdriverio --save-dev
> .\node_modules\.bin\codeceptjs init
Error: The system cannot find the path specified.
> npm i codeceptjs-webdriverio -g # because the above `init` command filed I wanted to see if a global install would work.
> codeceptjs init
Error: The system cannot find the path specified.
> codeceptjs
Error: The system cannot find the path specified.
> where codeceptjs
C:\Users\tamj0rd2\AppData\Roaming\npm\codeceptjs.cmd
# So it is installed, but running it just isn't working.

What do you get instead?

Error: The system cannot find the path specified.

Details

• CodeceptJS version: v1.0.1
• NodeJS Version: v6.9.2
• Operating System: Windows 10
• WebDriverIO
• Configuration file: N/A (haven't been able to generate it yet)

# paste suite config here
N/A?

[tamj0rd2]

I've had a look at this. On windows, when you run the codeceptjs command, it runs codeceptjs.cmd, not codeceptjs.

There is no check inside of codeceptjs.cmd telling it where cygwin's sh.exe is located. Instead, on line 6, it assumes that C:\Users\tamj0rd2\AppData\Roaming\npm\bin (for global installations, or my_project_directory\node_modules\.bin\bin for local installations) exists and contains a file called sh.exe. The bin folders and sh.exes didn't exist for me and that's why I was getting the error The system cannot find the path specified.

I was able to get the global command working by doing the following:

1. Created a bin folder in C:\Users\tamj0rd2\AppData\Roaming\npm
2. Copied sh.exe from C:\cygwin\bin into C:\Users\tamj0rd2\AppData\Roaming\npm\bin
3. .\node_modules\.bin\codeceptjs init

Got the local command working by doing this:

1. Created a bin folder in C:\Users\tamj0rd2\AppData\Roaming\npm
2. Copied sh.exe from C:\cygwin\bin into my_project_directory\node_modules\.bin\bin\sh.exe
3. .\node_modules\.bin\codeceptjs init

Since the bin/sh folder didn't exist inside of the directories codeceptjs expected, I'm willing to bet some other people are missing it too. I think there should be a check inside of both codeceptjs.cmd files to find out if the person is using cygwin, and if so, use cygwin's sh.exe.

[tamj0rd2]

I'd do a PR for this but I'm not sure whereabouts in the repo the codeceptjs.cmd files are

[APshenkin]

@tamj0rd2 Hi!
I'm unable to reproduce this bug on Windows 10. Both global and local init work as expected in default cmd console.

I use Win 10 build 15063 from here https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

Also it works in mingw and cygwin

Could you please provide more information about your installation?

Thanks!

[APshenkin]

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[ismailkhowaja1]

"./node_modules/.bin/codeceptjs" run --steps is the right way