Eslint "No files matching the pattern "lint" were found. Please check for typing mistakes in the pattern." error

Question

recently I have updated my project eslint package to "eslint": "^6.8.0". And this is when I'm seeing the error

Oops! Something went wrong! :(

ESLint: 6.8.0.

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

My package JSON script looks like this:

"lint": "eslint lint --color src -f ./node_modules/eslint-friendly-formatter src/ tests/unit/__mocks__/ --ext .json --ext .js -c .eslintrc.js",

I'm not sure what's wrong with this script, it was wroking fine with the older verisons of eslint.

When looking for a solution in the forums, the suggestion is to add a flag --no-error-on-unmatched-pattern. I'm not sure why do I need to add this flag to my script. Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

I guess people have faced this issue on verison 5 as well.. See this issue

https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/10587

--no-error-on-unmatched-pattern was added to ignore this kind of problem.