[v2] Can't scaffold new website

[pgruetter]

🐛 Bug Report

I can't scaffold a new website as described in the docs.

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines on issues?

Yes.

To Reproduce

1. Execute npx @docusaurus/init init my-website classic on Ubuntu

Expected behavior

A basic website is setup called my-website with the classic template.

Actual Behavior

I get an error:
Too many arguments.

If I omit the name and template, I would expect it to ask for it (as described in the docs), but get the following error instead:
Expected single character argument.

Your Environment

• Ubuntu 20.10
• npm : 6.14.8
• npx: 10.2.2
• yarn: 1.22.5

[slorber]

Hi,

Can you tell me the output of npx @docusaurus/init --version ?

Can you give more details about the output? (maybe a screenshot of your terminal)
When does it fail in this scaffold process? Do you have a stacktrace or something?

Have you tried a more recent node version? See requirements here: https://v2.docusaurus.io/docs/installation/#requirements

[pgruetter]

Can you tell me the output of npx @docusaurus/init --version ?

$ npx @docusaurus/init --version
init: unrecognized option '--version'

Can you give more details about the output? (maybe a screenshot of your terminal)
When does it fail in this scaffold process? Do you have a stacktrace or something?

There really isn't much else to show here. I don't have any stacktrace or error message apart from the ones pasted here.

Have you tried a more recent node version? See requirements here: https://v2.docusaurus.io/docs/installation/#requirements
No, I did not until now! I totally mixed up the numbers and thought I'm on a later version. I just followed this answer on StackOverflow to update to the latest version (not stable!). Now I'm on node v15.2.1 and the command runs successfully.

Sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out 👍

[slorber]

thanks for reporting @pgruetter , as we have the problem even for Node 10/12 we still need to figure this out.

Looks like @latest solves the problem for older node versions: npx @docusaurus/init@latest init my-website classic

[slorber]

will be fixed by #3803