$ gulp -> gulp: command not found, but $ npx gulp -> works?

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I installed gulp as their documentation says, but I can not use "gulp" command, because it gives me "-bash: gulp: command not found" error. When I use "npx gulp" then it works, but I do not know why.

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Possible duplicate of [After installation of Gulp: “no command 'gulp' found”](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22224831/after-installation-of-gulp-no-command-gulp-found) — Gereon, Jun 21 '19 at 11:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '19 at 12:23

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Try to install gulp locally and globally using npm install command on git bash and globally with npm-g installl gulp-cli. Then adding gulp.cmd path to windows path environment variable.

answered Jun 21 '19 at 12:23

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 05 '20 at 07:38

I know it's too late, but the short answer is that npx exists to solve this issue.

npx search your packages into node_modules directory instead of globally. If you have gulp installed globally, gulp -v should work fine. But npx solves this and also solves the problem with different packages versions in different projects.

$ gulp -> gulp: command not found, but $ npx gulp -> works?

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