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"No Input Files Provided" after update of Autorest to 2.0.4210

See original GitHub issue

We have a configuration file called “sdk.md” which we call with autorest. It seems since updating to autorest 2.0.4210 that we get the following error when trying to run the command

autorest sdk.md

[Exception] No input files provided

This is happening on multiple computers that we develop on. The configuration file has not changed as part of this. It seems like its not reading any of the Configuration file settings at all. Has something changed that could cause this?


input-file: http://localhost:49304/swagger/v1/swagger.json

csharp:
  namespace: SubscriptionsSdk
  output-folder: Client
  add-credentials: true
  client-side-validation: false
  enable-xml: true                # enable experimental XML serialization support
  # azure-arm: true               # uncomment this line to enable code generation in the Azure flavor

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:12 (7 by maintainers)

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RikkiGibsoncommented, Dec 19, 2017

Please make AutoRest crash with an actionable error message if a README.md is provided without the magic string.

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fearthecowboycommented, Dec 1, 2017

Ok, figured it out.

There is something clearly wrong with the init cmd or something; I found some (unicode?) crap in the file.

I reloaded the file you gave with DOS (cp437) encoding via vscode, and it shows what’s really inside:

´╗┐# StorageManager
>┬ásee┬áhttps://aka.ms/autorest

This is the AutoRest configuration file for the API-NAME.

---
## Getting Started┬á
To build the SDK for API-NAME, simply┬á[Install AutoRest](https://aka.ms/autorest/install) and in this folder, run:

>┬á`autorest`

To see additional help and options, run:

>┬á`autorest --help`
---

## Configuration for generating APIs

...insert-some-meanigful-notes-here...

---
#### Basic Information┬á
These are the global settings for the API.

``` yaml
# list all the input OpenAPI files (may be YAML, JSON, or Literate- OpenAPI markdown)
input-file:
  - swagger.json

override-client-name: 'StorageManagerClient'
```

---
#### Language-specific settings: CSharp

These settings apply only when┬á`--csharp`┬áis specified on the command line.

``` yaml $(csharp)┬á
csharp:
  namespace: 'IN.ServiceLayer.StorageManager.Client'
  output-folder: '.'
  azure-arm: true
```

To fix this, load the file up in vscode, and click on the UTF-8 at the bottom and do ‘save with encoding’ and select DOS (cp437)