How to preserve the working directory when running a pnpm command

[janniksam]

For example this is my structure:
/project/package.json
/project/my/deep/dir

I am calling pnpm mycommand inside "/project/my/deep/dir."
The command mycommand always gets /project as the working dir.

Is there an easy way to preserve "/project/my/deep/dir" as a working dir in mycommand?

[matoruru]

@janniksam Unfortunately there's no official solution for this.

Here is the workaround:

In package.json

"scripts": {
  "mycommand": "cd ${WORKDIR} && pwd"
},

Execute the pnpm command like this:

WORKDIR=$(pwd) pnpm run mycommand

This will let you get the nested directory as the result...

[b3nab]

How is it possible? I was looking for a similar solution and found out this: https://pnpm.io/pnpm-cli stating that options -C or --dir Run as if pnpm was started in <path> instead of the current working directory. .

But it's not working and for the moment and the only solution is your workaround.