rimraf specification doesn't work in windows #8
Description
The current "clean" script makes use of "rimraf" to delete the directory contents of "dist/*" like this:
"clean": "rimraf dist/*",
However, in windows when you add a trace of the error this reports you get to see this:
> npm run clean -s
{ [Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory 'C:\usr\local\angular\projects\npm-scripts-example-master\dist\*']
errno: 34,
code: 'ENOENT',
path: 'C:\\usr\\local\\angular\\projects\\npm-scripts-example-master\\dist\\*',
syscall: 'unlink' }
The reason is that contrary to Unix, windows does not expand "dist/*" into a list of files but passes it "as is".
Since most users would have Git installed, and on the PATH, and it has a windows version of "bash", I found that this fixes the issue.
"clean": "bash -c \"rimraf dist/*\"",
Another way to fix it is to remove the "/*".
"clean": "rimraf dist",
This last one also removes the "dist" directory but more importantly, the file "dist/.gitkeep" which was not removed (as no files starting with a dot are picked up by the * wildcard) does get removed now. If that was intended, good then this last specification works, otherwise the one with "bash" might be better.