Angular CLI command issue: "Unknown option: '--spec'"

Question

I am running this command:

C:\Users\Murali\my-first-app>ng g c abcde5 --dry-run -t -s --spec=false

I am receiving the following error:

Unknown option: '--spec'

How can I correct my command to avoid this?

vadimk7 · Answer 1 · 2021-02-25T07:57:16.503

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You can find all options here. Answering you question replace --spec=false by --skip-tests. If it won't working please provide the AngularCLI version

edited Feb 25 '21 at 07:57

answered Jun 06 '20 at 07:50

vadimk7

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just --skipTests option (without '=true') works well too – Andriy Boyko Jan 11 '21 at 20:51

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '20 at 13:37

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You can also use --skip-tests flag to skip generating .spec files. For more detail, you can use ng g c --help, this will give you further details

answered Jun 06 '20 at 13:37

Babita Bisht

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score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 31 '20 at 12:03

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If you are using Angular CLI version 3, replace

--spec=false

with

--skipTests=true

answered Aug 31 '20 at 12:03

Nikhil Yadav

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 22 '21 at 13:45

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Instead of

--spec=false

use

--skip-tests

Don't use --skipTests=true because

Support for camel case arguments has been deprecated and will be removed in a future major version.

answered Feb 22 '21 at 13:45

Tiago Martins Peres

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 26 '22 at 04:36

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ng generate component componenetname --skipTests=true --inlineStyle=true

was replaced by

ng generate component componenetname --skip-tests --inline-style

in angular CLI 14

edited Jul 26 '22 at 04:36

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answered Jul 21 '22 at 19:29

hatem ghorbel

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 08 '21 at 07:58

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ng g c componentname --skipTests true

In the newer version of Angular CLI --spec is replaced with --skipTests.

This is working at my site.

answered Oct 08 '21 at 07:58

Anjali

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 22 '22 at 20:39

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Use rather than --sepc false :

--skip-tests

In the old version of angular, it's was working right but in the new version this not working with me anymore.

answered Apr 22 '22 at 20:39

Abd Abughazaleh

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aabiro · Answer 8 · 2022-07-26T07:41:40.790

With Angular >= 8 you can use:

ng g c component-name --skip-tests --dry-run -s -t

OR

You can edit angular.json to set your global setting to use --skip-tests automatically without having to add it as a flag each time you generate a component with the CLI, by adding the skipTests parameter with value true ie:

{ 
  "projects": {
    "<PROJECT_NAME>": {
      "schematics": {
        "@schematics/angular:component": {
          "skipTests": true
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

To set this globally run:

ng config schematics.@schematics/angular:component.skipTests true

Then, with this config above you can simply use:

ng g c component-name --dry-run -s -t

See this post for further details. Also, for a list of all available options try:

ng g c --help

Angular CLI command issue: "Unknown option: '--spec'"

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