I'm trying to create a simple script in my package.json file of my node project
{
"scripts": {
"db:create-migration": "echo 'Enter a filename' && read name && echo $name && npx sequelize-cli migration:generate --name $name --migrations-path db-migrations"
}
}
It's to call sequelize-cli to create a db migration script with a provided name. It's called via the terminal like so:
npm run db:create-migration
When I echo $name just after read, it prints fine, but I get an Unbound variable "name" with the sequelize-cli call.
There's obviously something that eludes me, and most of the other questions are this are related to set -u - which I'm guessing gets set somewhere behind the scenes when running this.
I'm a unix n00b, so apologies if this is a basic question. Environment is zsh on mac
npminstead of the shell. If it tries to expand that$nameitself. (zsh giveszsh: name: parameter not set, Bash givesbash: name: unbound variable.) Try what happens if you run e.g.export VAR=fooin the shell before runing that, and haveVAR=bar; echo $VARin the script...echo 'Enter a filename' && read name && export VAR=$name && echo $VAR && npx sequelize-cli migration:generate --name $VAR --migrations-path db-migrations, but I still get the errorUnbound variable "name"- this time before theecho, so it's erroring on theexport"scripts": { "db:create-migration": "VAR=bar; echo $VAR" }in the file, and then runexport VAR=foo; npm run db:create-migrationfrom the shellbar