topojson-svg : how to make it works?

Question

Tweet: Mike Bostock recently tweeted:

If you like making maps in Illustrator, TopoJSON 1.6.9 supports conversion to SVG. No code required! https://github.com/mbostock/topojson/blob/master/bin/topojson-svg
——Mike Bostock (@mbostock) 30 Avril 2014

Cool !

Topojson version: on my terminal, I checked the version...

$topojson --version
>1.6.11
$node --version
>v0.10.25

Seems good.

Topojson-svg trial: so I gave it a shoot...

curl -o uk.topo.json 'http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/uk.json' #get an online topoJSON file
topojson-svg -o output.svg uk.topo.json    #this fails

Error: I get a corrupt .svg file together with this ugly error message

fs.js:393
  binding.close(fd, makeCallback(callback));
          ^
TypeError: Bad argument
    at Object.fs.close (fs.js:393:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yug/local/lib/node_modules/topojson/bin/topojson-svg:85:32)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:902:3

Question: How to process to successfully use topojson-svg ?

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Edit: also occured with recently installed local (non-global) /node_module :

npm install topojson       #locally install topojson.js & topojson-svg
curl -o uk.topo.json 'http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/uk.json' #get an online topoJSON file
node_modules/.bin/topojson-svg -o output.svg uk.topo.json    #this fails

Answer 1

Fixed on github within 4minutes after reporting the issue.

Will be available within hours/days on npm, with topojson v.1.6.12+