How to resolve grunt not recognizable error on jenkins whereas Grunt is running in command prompt?

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Jenkins output:

test cases will be executed
'grunt' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Build step 'Execute Windows batch command' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '18 at 11:09

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Most probably if the grunt-cli package is installed globally, you do not have the executable path added to system's PATH variable.

Or in the case when you do not have the package installed, npm install -g grunt-cli in windows shell.

answered May 03 '18 at 11:09

Marcin Natanek

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npm install -g grunt-cli I have run this command in shell but still jenkins gives the same error.But when i write grunt in my project root, its successfully running the tests. – Aayushi Brawed May 03 '18 at 11:11
I have also added npm and grunt path to system variables just to be on safer side. – Aayushi Brawed May 03 '18 at 11:13
Try to `echo %PATH% ` within the script, before using grunt, and see if you have exported it properly. – Marcin Natanek May 03 '18 at 11:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 03 '18 at 12:08

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Issue was related to path,basically my user's path variable had npm and grunt paths but was missing from system path variable.So i added npm path to system path variable and it worked for jenkins!

answered May 03 '18 at 12:08

Aayushi Brawed

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 15 '20 at 17:26

In my case the path was defined correctly. It worked when I execute it on CMD, but not from Jenkins. Turns out it was due to Jenkins using its own managed path, as defined in Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Global Properties. Define Environment variable named "Path" there, and add the location of your npm directory to it, such as: "C:\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Roaming\npm;"

How to resolve grunt not recognizable error on jenkins whereas Grunt is running in command prompt?

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