Argument List Too Long error - maybe cl eslint not respecting ignore

Trying to follow along with the ESLint video from FEM, but running into a few issues, but here is one.

The following command line does not work.

./node_modules/.bin/eslint **/*.{js,jsx} --quiet

Neither does this:

./node_modules/.bin/eslint **/*.js --quiet

They both return ‘zsh: argument list too long: ./node_modules/.bin/eslint’

The following does:

./node_modules/.bin/eslint */*.jsx --quiet

So does this:

./node_modules/.bin/eslint **/*.jsx --quiet

I can only assume that this is because of the number of js files in the node_modules folder? But, eslint is supposed to ignore the node_modules folder by default. I try to run this using the --ignore-pattern flag, but doesn’t seem to matter.

I noticed a few glob sort of issues on the eslint repo and symlinks, but a bit over my head at the moment? https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/4606

Is anybody else having this problem and is there a workaround?

For the time being, I am just going to use ./node_modules/.bin/eslint **/*.jsx --quiet and roll with it.

[andrewnaeve]

Hi friends

With zsh, the **/*.js needs to be in quotes.

my lint script looks like:

"lint": "./node_modules/.bin/eslint eslint '**/*.js' --fix"

hope that helps.

[robkreisel]

And here is a great explanation of the ** globbing operator in zsh. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62660/the-result-of-ls-ls-and-ls. And it appears to be the combination of **/* in zsh. For instance, ls **/* in bash works, but ls **/* in zsh will produce the same error of “argument list too long”.