title: invalid token ELF at the top of a Node.js file
body: <p>I got this weird error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/home/oleg/.nvm/versions/node/v10.7.0/bin/node:1
  (function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { ELF
                                                                ^
  
  SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
      at new Script (vm.js:74:7)
      at createScript (vm.js:246:10)
      at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:298:10)
      at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:657:28)
      at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
      at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
      at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
      at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
      at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
      at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am on Ubuntu, can't figure out what's causing it. It's not showing up in the plaintext here but you can see more in this screenshot:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mp4Vo.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mp4Vo.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>