Truffle — Microsoft JScript runtime error [duplicate]

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• Running truffle migrate just opens my truffle.js file and does nothing 4 answers

Running truffle from command line gives me this Windows 7 popup message:

While init runs successfully. I see file truffle.js in my project folder. How can I handle this gently?

Answer 1

Otherwise you can simply rename the file

C:\User\name\AppData\Roaming\npm\truffle.bat

(for exmaple in truf.bat); in this way, as you said, avoid confusion with microsoft command lines.

Update (12.07.2018)

It is a known problem and now also part of the official truffle-documentation. They provide 4 different solutions:

• Call the executable file explicitly using its .cmd extension (truffle.cmd compile)
• Edit the system PATHEXT environment variable and remove .JS; from the list of executable extensions
• Rename truffle.js to something else (truffle-config.js)
• Use Windows PowerShell or Git BASH, as these shells do not have this conflict.

Answer 2

This is how I've solved it:

C:\Users\steve\AppData\Roaming\npm\truffle migrate

looks like architecture flaw if truffle: config file is truffle.js, which confuses windows command line...