Unable to run this command about reddid

[prashcr]

Which node version are you on? Could you show me the output of

node --version

[mberg2007]

Yes:

$ node --version
v4.2.6
$

Also I'm running Ubuntu, pretty standard setup:

$ uname -a
Linux michael-laptop 4.4.0-64-generic #85-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 20 11:50:30 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

[prashcr]

Thanks, I'll spin up an Ubuntu vm and see if I can reproduce

[mberg2007]

Did you have any luck reproducing this problem?

[prashcr]

Incredibly sorry for the late reply. I tried it and was able to reproduce the problem. It seems Linux does not support arguments in a shebang, TIL.

SpencerCDixon/redux-cli#42

The reason I used node --harmony was that back when I wrote it I was using arrow functions that weren't part of the latest stable node version, so I had to pass the --harmony flag to enable experimental features such as arrow functions.

Now we're well past that and I don't see the need for --harmony anymore so I removed it and pushed a new version, it should work now.

[mberg2007]

Hi, thanks for your answer. How do I update my installed version?

I tried doing the npm install again but it hasn't resolved the problem. Same issue as before with the "--harmony" no such file message.

[prashcr]

Try npm update -g reddid

[prashcr]

My bad, it seems I didn't push the update to npm. I just did that, let me know if it works. Either npm install or update should work.

[mberg2007]

I'm sorry to bother you again with this issue but there seems to be another problem now:

michael@michael-laptop:~$ sudo npm update -g reddid
/usr/local/bin/reddid -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/reddid/cli.js
/usr/local/lib
└── [email protected] 

michael@michael-laptop:~$ cd temp/reddid/
michael@michael-laptop:~/temp/reddid$ reddid earthporn hot 3
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/reddid/cli.js:19
let [sub, cat, num, time] = cli.input
    ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token [
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10)
    at startup (node.js:136:18)
    at node.js:966:3

[mberg2007]

And just FYI: "earthporn" isn't some bizarre fetish, it's images from beautiful locations around the world :-) Some of those photos are amazingly beautiful, I hope to use reddid to collect a few to use for my screensaver.

[prashcr]

I'm an avid redditor myself, no worries 😄
I think that means your version of node.js is too old. It should work on anything v6+

[mberg2007]

That solved it. Took a bit of research to find out how to do that with Ubuntu but I'm now running version 7.x of nodejs and reddid is working like a charm now. The first 50 images are already on my drive :-)

Thanks for your help!