Here's my folder structure:

app
└───templates
    ├───templ1.hbs
    ├───templ2.hbs
    └───templ3.hbs

I want to pile (prepile) all templN.hbs handlebars template files in one templ.js file, but when i try to do it via console

$ handlebars *.hbs -f templ.js

piling fails with this error

(...)\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\handlebars\bin\handlebars:120
    throw err;
    ^
 Error: Unable to open template file "*.hbs"
    at (...)\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\handlebars\dist\cjs\prepiler.js:107:25
    at FSReqWrap.onplete (fs.js:82:15)

What's the matter?

Here's my folder structure:

app
└───templates
    ├───templ1.hbs
    ├───templ2.hbs
    └───templ3.hbs

I want to pile (prepile) all templN.hbs handlebars template files in one templ.js file, but when i try to do it via console

$ handlebars *.hbs -f templ.js

piling fails with this error

(...)\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\handlebars\bin\handlebars:120
    throw err;
    ^
 Error: Unable to open template file "*.hbs"
    at (...)\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\handlebars\dist\cjs\prepiler.js:107:25
    at FSReqWrap.onplete (fs.js:82:15)

What's the matter?

• javascript
• npm
• handlebars.js
• template-engine

Share Improve this question Follow asked Jun 2, 2016 at 20:36 gianmarcocalbigianmarcocalbi 31322 silver badges1313 bronze badges 2

• Did you make sure you've changed the active directory into the correct folder? Most likely it's barfing because it's looking for templ1.hbs but you're actually running the mand from ~/Desktop or something. – Titus Commented Jun 2, 2016 at 20:58
• @Titus When I run that mand from cmd I'm in the app/templates/ folder. In fact piling a single template such as templ1.hbs with $ handlebars templ1.hbs -f templ1.js works fine. – gianmarcocalbi Commented Jun 3, 2016 at 9:51

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After a bit of practice with Handlebars and its prepiler i found out the solution was as simple as stupid my question was.

First of all it's better to stay in the root folder, hence in my case stay in app folder. Then, to pile all .hbs templates, simply pass the entire ./handlebars folder as input to handlebars prepiler and specify the extension of templates he should look for:

$ handlebars ./templates -f templ.js --extension "hbs"

Everything should work fine.

For more prepiler's options see http://handlebarsjs./prepilation.html