generator-jhipster: upgrade fail under windows

Overview of the issue

I tried to upgrade my code to 4.6.2 but encountered error:

$ jhipster upgrade Executing jhipster:upgrade Options: Welcome to the JHipster Upgrade Sub-Generator This will upgrade your current application codebase to the latest JHipster version Looking for latest generator-jhipster version… New generator-jhipster version found: 4.6.2 Git repository detected Checked out branch “jhipster_upgrade” Updating generator-jhipster to 4.6.2 . This might take some time… Updated generator-jhipster to version 4.6.2 Cleaned up directory Regenerating application with JHipster 4.6.2… events.js:160 throw er; // Unhandled ‘error’ event ^

Error: ERROR! Something went wrong while generating project! ‘$’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

at Environment.error (C:\Users\Powerful User\AppData\Local\Yarn\config\global\node_modules\yeoman-environment\lib\environment.js:140:40)
at constructor.error (C:\Users\Powerful User\AppData\Local\Yarn\config\global\node_modules\generator-jhipster\generators\generator-base.js:1610:18)
at shelljs.exec (C:\Users\Powerful User\AppData\Local\Yarn\config\global\node_modules\generator-jhipster\generators\upgrade\index.js:86:23)
at C:\Users\Powerful User\AppData\Local\Yarn\config\global\node_modules\shelljs\src\exec.js:204:9
at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:211:5)
at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:886:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)

Motivation for or Use Case

To help who encounter same issue under windows when upgrading a jhipster generated project

Reproduce the error

Step 1: yarn global upgrade generator-jhipster

Step 2: jhipster upgrade

This error occurs in power shell AND git bash.

Related issues

None

Suggest a Fix

JHipster Version(s)

Upgraded jhipster generator to 4.6.2 then try to upgrade my code base from 4.5.6 to 4.6.2

JHipster configuration

$ jhipster info Executing jhipster:info Options: Welcome to the JHipster Information Sub-Generator

JHipster Version(s)

C:\code\sibodell-hse\hse-backend
`-- generator-jhipster@4.6.2

JHipster configuration, a .yo-rc.json file generated in the root folder

{
  "generator-jhipster": {
    "promptValues": {
      "packageName": "com.bigcompany.hse",
      "nativeLanguage": "zh-cn"
    },
    "jhipsterVersion": "4.5.6",
    "baseName": "hse",
    "packageName": "com.bigcompany.hse",
    "packageFolder": "com/bigcompany/hse",
    "serverPort": "8080",
    "authenticationType": "jwt",
    "hibernateCache": "ehcache",
    "clusteredHttpSession": false,
    "websocket": false,
    "databaseType": "sql",
    "devDatabaseType": "mysql",
    "prodDatabaseType": "mysql",
    "searchEngine": false,
    "messageBroker": false,
    "serviceDiscoveryType": false,
    "buildTool": "maven",
    "enableSocialSignIn": false,
    "jwtSecretKey": "replaced-by-jhipster-info",
    "clientFramework": "angular1",
    "useSass": false,
    "clientPackageManager": "yarn",
    "applicationType": "monolith",
    "testFrameworks": [],
    "jhiPrefix": "jhi",
    "enableTranslation": true,
    "nativeLanguage": "zh-cn",
    "languages": [
      "zh-cn",
      "en"
    ]
  }
}

JDL for the Entity configuration(s) entityName.json files generated in the .jhipster directory

ls: no such file or directory: .jhipster/*.json

Environment and Tools

java version “1.8.0_141” Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_141-b15) Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.141-b15, mixed mode)

git version 2.12.2.windows.2

node: v6.10.2

npm: 5.0.4

bower: 1.8.0

gulp: [12:11:04] CLI version 1.3.0 [12:11:04] Local version 3.9.1

yeoman: 2.0.0

yarn: 0.27.5

Docker version 1.12.5, build 7392c3b

docker-compose version 1.9.0, build 2585387

Execution complete

Entity configuration(s) entityName.json files generated in the .jhipster directory

NONE (We generated some entities then moved the .json files to other directory, this bug should have nothing to do with entities)

Browsers and Operating System

Windows 10 Pro

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