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Warning: path must be a string Use --force to continue.

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I have grunt task for babel as it’s described on Babel official page:

babel : {
  options: {
      sourceMap: true
    },
  dist : {
    files : {
      'app/scripts/controllers/target-babel.js' : 'app/scripts/controllers/src.js'  
    }
  }
},

After running grunt babel I get:

Running "babel:dist" (babel) task
Warning: path must be a string Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

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Created 9 years ago
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42reactions

zanesterlingcommented, Jun 4, 2015

It would be nice if the error message were more useful.

3reactions

mauvmcommented, Mar 23, 2015

Oops. You are absolutely right. I switched the source and dest paths. 😁

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