Error using replace-x 1.7.2 in package.json node 10.16.0

[ghwrivas]

Error using replace-x 1.7.2 in package.json node 10.16.0

[Xotic750]

I'm afraid that I'm unable to reproduce this problem. Are you able to give me something more definitive that I can reproduce it with?

[marcosins]

I'm able to reproduce this. It looks like the script is taking the replacement string as one of the paths to look for files:

$ npm i replace-x
$ npx replace-x --version
1.7.2
$ echo 'this file has text'  > test.txt
$ cat test.txt 
this file has text
$ npx replace-x 'text' 'TEXT BUT UPPERCASE' test.txt
ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'TEXT BUT UPPERCASE'

I was able to fix it by adding the replacement property to shared-options:

replacement: {
      position: 1, // Second argument
      string: true,
      describe: 'Replacement string for matches',
      demandOption: true,
}

At the same time, the paths property has a wrong index of 1 when it should be 2 (third argument):

replace-x/bin/shared-options-x.js

Line 12 in 7770104

position: 1,

It also looks like positionalArgs being an object is a problem for the parser that is looking for an array:

replace-x/bin/parse-arguments-x.js

Line 6 in 7770104

const $addlPosArgs = Array.isArray(addlPosArgs) ? addlPosArgs : [];

After those fixes, I was able to run the script successfully:

$ echo 'some random TEXT' > test.txt 
$ cat test.txt 
some random TEXT
$ npx replace-x 'TEXT' 'text, but lowercase' test.txt
test.txt
 1: some random text, but lowercase
$ cat test.txt 
some random text, but lowercase

I hope this helps you to publish a fix.