command not found

[zcysxy]

Sorry I'm not that familiar with shell so I may ask some dumb questions. I want to use Picgo CLI (an image uploader) with Shell Commands, like

picgo upload

But it told me zsh: command not found. However picgo is in the path, and I can execute this command from the terminal.

Then I tried using the path returned by which picgo. But it gave me another error: env: node: No such file or directory.

I know this is not a bug, since another plugin Snippets Plugin gives me the same errors. But I'm confused and thought I might get some help here.

[Taitava]

Hi, thank you for your question! 🙂

Are you using macOS or Linux?

This is a very new problem to me, so I don't know yet what might help. There has been another discussion with a similar issue but that's still unsolved. I'll quote an instruction from that discussion:

Can you try to run the following command first in the normal terminal and then using the SC plugin (you can set the output channel to be e.g. clipboard): echo $PATH.

If you want, you can copy the outputs into this discussion. I understand it might be private information (contains file paths), so you don't have to do it if you don't want.

You mentioned that you checked $PATH already, but I just wanted to make sure that did you check it by using the SC plugin?

If the content of $PATH in SC is different than what it is in a normal terminal, then that might give us some direction on how to find a solution to this.

Here is also another $PATH related discussion: #150 . It's a feature request that is still under planning.

[zcysxy]

@Taitava Thank you so much for your reply, it solved both problems for me! I'm on macOS. And yeah $PATH in SC, which is /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin, doesn't contain the path to picgo. So I went to check my .zshrc; it turned out that I did not export the path to picgo to $PATH either. This is because I use nvm to manage node; and in .zshrc, a nvm script is executed, which adds the path to both picgo and node to the $PATH. So I just added the execution of the nvm script to the command and everything works now! The result command is this

\. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" && picgo upload

[Taitava]

Wow, nice to hear that you were able to solve the problem! 🌞

in .zshrc, a nvm script is executed, which adds the path to both picgo and node to the $PATH

So I assume that .zshrc is not executed when SC executes shell commands. SC uses Node.js's child_process.exec() to execute shell commands. So looks like the execution workflow does not include .zshrc, which is a pity, but maybe there is a reason for it that I'm unaware of. Maybe performance could be one reason?

I'm thinking about this from a convenience point of view: If there would be a simple, well working way to include .zshrc in the execution workflow, I'd like to offer users a setting to enable it. It would narrow the gap between executing shell commands via SC versus via a terminal.

[Taitava]

Just a heads up here too, #150 is now in a beta test: #228 . It can be used to add directories to PATH.