Failed to find .rc file at default paths: [./.env-cmdrc,./.env-cmdrc.js,./.env-cmdrc.json]

This has been reported already in #118 but the OP closed it. The reason for this error message in both my case in issue 118’s OP was that the .env-cmd was not valid JSON and could not be parsed correctly which would have been much more helpful error message than this confusing information about env-cmd not being able to find the .rc file. The issue lies here in get-env-var.js inside the catch that is muting all exceptions except EnvironmentError, I added a comment and console.log there to debug locally:

    for (const path of RC_FILE_DEFAULT_LOCATIONS) {
        try {
            const env = await parse_rc_file_1.getRCFileVars({ environments, filePath: path });
            if (verbose === true) {
                console.info(`Found environments: [${environments.join(',')}] for default .rc file at path: ${path}`);
            }
            return env;
        }
        catch (e) {
            // not sure why you want mute exceptions other than "EnvironmentError", add the console.log in the line below to see the true error being muted.
            console.log(`ERROR: ${e}`);
            if (e.name === 'EnvironmentError') {
                const errorText = `Failed to find environments: [${environments.join(',')}] for .rc file at path: ${path}`;
                if (verbose === true) {
                    console.info(errorText);
                }
                throw new Error(errorText);
            }
        }
    }

Maybe you could just rethrow the error below the “if” statement to make sure errors are not muted.

[davegariepy]

thanks, in my case I had a trailing comma

[echosonusharma]

its most likely a syntax error for me my env-cmdrc had a comma in the last key value pair in the development section.