CLI usage with npx (Windows)

[piotr-cz]

Tell us about your environment

Windows 10

• Node version: v14.13.0
• npm version: v6.14.8
• Local ESLint version: v7.10.0
• Global ESLint version: Not found

What parser (default, @babel/eslint-parser, @typescript-eslint/parser, etc.) are you using?
default

Please show your full configuration:

Configuration

{
}

What did you do? Please include the actual source code causing the issue, as well as the command that you used to run ESLint.

// Not related

Case A

npx eslint --rule "quotes: [2, double]" src

Case B

npx eslint -- --rule "quotes: [2, double]" src

This works:

node_modules\.bin\eslint --rule "quotes: [2, double]" src

What did you expect to happen?
Command should show report for each file in src directory, as in docs

What actually happened? Please include the actual, raw output from ESLint.

Case A

Oops! Something went wrong! :(

ESLint: 7.10.0

No files matching the pattern "[2," were found.
Please check for typing mistakes in the pattern.

Case B

Oops! Something went wrong! :(

ESLint: 7.10.0

No files matching the pattern "--rule" were found.
Please check for typing mistakes in the pattern.

Are you willing to submit a pull request to fix this bug?
no

[mdjermanovic]

Hi @piotr-cz, thanks for the issue!

This seems to be a bug in npx: npm/npx#43, npm/npx#10

It works without spaces in quotes:

npx eslint --rule "quotes:[2,double]" src

[piotr-cz]

@mdjermanovic
Thank you for looking it up instead of me, it's clearly a npx issue.
Your workaround works 👍