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npm command not found in zsh but found in bash

I installed npm with nvm and the first time it went all great, now I tried to check npm version on Mac terminal an it shows:

% npm --version
zsh: command not found: npm

But using VSCode terminal with bash, with same command, shows:

npm --version
6.14.12

Is there a chance I installed the wrong way npm or nvm? Or is this a way I can tell Mac terminal to use bash instead of zsh?

Solution

  • I managed to solve this issue first by executing echo $PATH in both bash and zsh the result was:

    bash: /Users/myuser/.nvm/versions/node/v12.22.1/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

    zsh: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

    Both paths have /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

    But only bash has this: /Users/myuser/.nvm/versions/node/v12.22.1/bin:

    So I needed to add that missing path to zhs path, since I didn't have a .zshrc file I needed to do:

    echo 'PATH="~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.22.1/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

    After that I do reset on terminal and verify again with echo $PATH that I have the same path on both terminals.

    Finally executed the following command: source ~/.zshrc, reseted terminal again and now both bash and zhs are sync and usable.