Can't execute nvm from new bash

Question

When I open a new bash, nvm command is not found. It seems that the ~/.nvm/nvm.sh is not being loaded on bash startup.

I have added the line below to ~/.bashrc

[[ -s /home/$USER/.nvm/nvm.sh ]] && . /home/$USER/.nvm/nvm.sh

Any ideas why it is happening?

If you run that command manually from the shell session it works correctly and `nvm` becomes available? — Etan Reisner, Jun 23 '15 at 20:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '15 at 20:26

If you are running from a new bash instance, and you HAVE the initialization code at your ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, etc, then you need to check this initialization file for conditionals.

On Ubuntu 14, there is a:

case $- in
    *i*) ;;
      *) return;;
esac

At line 6, that will halt it's execution if bash is not being ran with the "-i" (interactive) flag. So you would need to run:

bash -i

Also, at the end of the file, there is a

[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

That will halt it's execution if not being ran with $PS1 set (like on a remote ssh session).

If you do not wish to add any env vars or flags, you will need to remove those conditionals from your initialization file.

Hope that's helpful.

Can't execute nvm from new bash

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