Error when running kibana.bat: \nodejs\node.exe was unexpected at this time.

[dterziev]

This is happening on a Windows x64 with Node x86 installed in the default location C:\Program Files(x86)\nodejs\node.exe and is in the current PATH. The issue is caused by the CMD parser which misinterprets the parenthesis in the path on this line: SET NODE=%SYS_NODE%, even when it does not execute it. For more details see here: http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-brackets.html. The solution is to simply quote the variable assignment: SET "NODE=%SYS_NODE%". This way the quotes don't become part of the value and will not cause an issue if it falls back to using the %SYS_NODE% path.