> On Dec 29, 2014, at 2:12 AM, noderiety <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, I just finished installing nodejs on ubuntu. I wanted to do a simple > Hello World to get started so I executed the following at the command prompt: > > node console.log('hello world') > > However, this returns the following error: > > -bash: syntax error near unexpected token '(' > > Any idea what might be causing this issue and how to fix? >
Yes! You're actually mixing up two different things. The node command-line consists of a script to run, and arguments to pass to it, parsed by the shell -- the shell is what's giving you the error, because you're giving it javascript, not simple space-separated arguments like command-lines take. (you can do more, but quoting rules abound!) So what you want to do is put your one-line script in a file -- call it 'hello.js' perhaps, then: node hello.js It should print out "hello world" Aria -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/44ED1D21-5F1E-4E76-AFE4-9B8F3A6B4AE7%40nbtsc.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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