Running CLI command with "-U" results in a message containing Did you mean "$0"

[Tokimon]

🐛 Bug Report

Got this message when running CLI command with a bad parameter:

● Unrecognized CLI Parameter:
  Unrecognized option "U". Did you mean "$0"?

I seems to me that the message ("$0") is wrong (looks like a misinterpreted regular expression replacement).

To Reproduce

Launch jest cli command with -U instead of -u

Expected behavior

I think the message is supposed to say:
Unrecognized option "U". Did you mean "u"?

Link to repl or repo (highly encouraged)

N/A

envinfo

full command and result

$ npm test -- -U

> <MyProject>@1.1.7 test <MyProjectPath>
> cross-env TZ=UTC NODE_ENV=test jest --ci "-U"

● Unrecognized CLI Parameter:

  Unrecognized option "U". Did you mean "$0"?

  CLI Options Documentation:
  https://jestjs.io/docs/en/cli.html

npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.

[thymikee]

PR with a fix appreciated!

[rbrishabh]

Hey! Can I take this up?

[thymikee]

@rbrishabh go for it!

[tonythetiger323]

@rbrishabh did you have a chance to look into it? If not I wouldn't mind taking a look at it.

[rbrishabh]

Hey @tonythetiger323, yes I'm looking into this. Will create a PR soon.

[Hardik500]

I would like to work on this issue.

[clentfort]

I tried to reproduce your described error but if i run NODE_ENV=test ./node_modules/.bin/jest --ci "-U" from latest master I get no such error. Instead jest just runs some of the tests.

[iPawan]

● Unrecognized CLI Parameter:

  Unrecognized option "l". Did you mean "$0"?

  CLI Options Documentation:
  https://jestjs.io/docs/en/cli.html```

[ghostd]

I did a quick analyze. If i understand correctly, the $0 comes from the following array in validateCLIOptions:

const yargsSpecialOptions = ['$0', '_', 'help', 'h'];

When we pass the incorrect option (here l) and the set of potential options to createDidYouMeanMessage, the function returns Did you mean "$0"?

It seems right given the fact the incorrect option is only one letter, the leven library cannot make a better suggestion.

Maybe we should not suggest anything when the incorrect option has a length < 2 or something like that.

I can provide a PR when we'll decide the expected bahavior.

[jcs98]

@thymikee I would love to take this up as my first issue.
Can you please suggest the expected behavior?

[thymikee]

What @ghostd said. Plus, we could add a simple check if lowercasing a single letter would match with one of the valid options, but nothing more :)

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