node.js - Express command not found

Question

For some reason after installing Express globally on my machine with npm install -g express if I cd into a directory and try to run express I get the following error:

express: command not found. 

Even if I run it with sudo I still get the same output. I've tried multiple different solutions to this problem and nothing has worked. I had installed node via homebrew which some threads on Stack Overflow indicated might have been a problem so I completely uninstalled node and reinstalled via the installer on nodejs.org (I'm now running v0.10.26) and the problem still persists.

If I go into my /usr/local/lib/node_modules Express is in there but within /usr/local/bin there is nothing regarding Express. I'm not sure if that's a problem or not but considering there are binaries for other globally installed node packages in that directory I'm thinking there may be something wrong there.

This is the exact output I get when I install:

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/express
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/express
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/accepts/1.0.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/type-is/1.0.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/range-parser/1.0.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cookie/0.1.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/fresh/0.2.2
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/buffer-crc32/0.2.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/send/0.2.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/methods/0.1.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cookie-signature/1.0.3
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/utils-merge/1.0.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/merge-descriptors/0.0.2
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/escape-html/1.0.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/serve-static/1.0.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/qs/0.6.6
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/path-to-regexp/0.1.2
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/parseurl/1.0.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/debug
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/cookie/0.1.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/type-is/1.0.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/buffer-crc32/0.2.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/methods/0.1.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/accepts/1.0.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/range-parser/1.0.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/cookie-signature/1.0.3
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/fresh/0.2.2
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/serve-static/1.0.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/qs/0.6.6
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/utils-merge/1.0.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/merge-descriptors/0.0.2
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/escape-html/1.0.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/path-to-regexp/0.1.2
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/parseurl/1.0.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/debug
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/send/0.2.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/send/0.1.4
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/negotiator
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/send/0.1.4
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/range-parser/0.0.4
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/fresh/0.2.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/negotiator
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/range-parser/0.0.4
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/fresh/0.2.0
express@4.0.0 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/express
├── methods@0.1.0
├── parseurl@1.0.1
├── utils-merge@1.0.0
├── merge-descriptors@0.0.2
├── escape-html@1.0.1
├── debug@0.8.0
├── cookie-signature@1.0.3
├── range-parser@1.0.0
├── fresh@0.2.2
├── qs@0.6.6
├── buffer-crc32@0.2.1
├── cookie@0.1.0
├── path-to-regexp@0.1.2
├── type-is@1.0.0 (mime@1.2.11)
├── send@0.2.0 (mime@1.2.11)
├── serve-static@1.0.1 (send@0.1.4)
└── accepts@1.0.0 (negotiator@0.3.0, mime@1.2.11)

Answer 1

With the release of Express 4.0.0 it looks like you need to do sudo npm install -g express-generator.