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truffle console: SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

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Truffle migrate is working good but while running truffle console

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier at new Script (vm.js:51:7) at createScript (vm.js:136:10) at Object.runInContext (vm.js:181:10) at Console.interpret (C:\Users\labo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:106593:17) at ReplManager.interpret (C:\Users\labo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js:107310:18) at bound (domain.js:375:14) at REPLServer.runBound [as eval] (domain.js:388:12) at REPLServer.onLine (repl.js:492:10) at REPLServer.emit (events.js:180:13) at REPLServer.emit (domain.js:421:20)

Environment

Operating System: Windows
Ethereum client:
Truffle version (truffle version):v4.1.6
node version (node --version):v9.9.0
npm version (npm --version): 5.8.0

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:22 (8 by maintainers)

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cgeweckecommented, Apr 23, 2018

@vidhyaramani Hi. Within truffle console you don’t need to prefix the commands with truffle. To migrate, just type migrate. There’s a list of available commands here.

Could you check to see if removing the word ‘truffle’ from your command solves this problem?

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joeyBergercommented, Dec 27, 2018

You cannot use the truffle keyword when you are in truffle develop

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