Configuration Error: Failed to resolve file: "current directory here"

Info

Kind of Issue

• runtime - command-line tools
• building / compiling
• security
• change in behavior
• crash / error

Which Tool or library

• cspell – the command-line spelling tool
• cspell-tools – used for building dictionary files
• cspell-lib – library that does the actual spell checking.
• cspell-trie – tool for working with trie files.

Which Version

Version:

Issue with supporting library?

• No
• cspell-glob – library for matching glob patterns
• cspell-io – thin file i/o library
• cspell-trie-lib - trie lib
• cspell-trie2-lib - trie lib alternate format

OS:

• Macos
• Linux
• Windows
• Other

version:

Ubuntu 20.04

Bug Description

With any command I give to cspell (except for things like cspell --version), it fails with a “Failed to resolve file” error.

$ cspell README.md
Configuration Error: Failed to resolve file: "/home/aaronfranke/workspace/myprojectfolderhere"
CSpell: Files checked: 0, Issues found: 0 in 0 files

$ cspell "src/**/*.c"
Configuration Error: Failed to resolve file: "/home/aaronfranke/workspace/myprojectfolderhere"
CSpell: Files checked: 0, Issues found: 0 in 0 files

$ cat README.md | cspell stdin
Configuration Error: Failed to resolve file: "/home/aaronfranke/workspace/myprojectfolderhere"
CSpell: Files checked: 0, Issues found: 0 in 0 files

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install cspell with sudo npm install -g cspell
2. Run any of the above commands.
3. See error

Expected behavior

Instead of an error, it should work.

Screenshots

Additional context

Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit with cspell 5.2.4 installed with sudo npm install -g cspell, npm 6.14.11

cspell.json

N/A, no custom settings used.

Example Repository (Optional)

N/A, happens on even just a single file.

[Jason3S]

It is expecting to find a configuration file. It should not be necessary, but it seems like the last release introduced this bug.

Workaround: Try: echo "{}" > cspell.json.

[aaronfranke]

$ node -v
v12.20.2