Unable to lint .eslintrc.js

[michael-wolfenden]

What version of ESLint are you using?
3.0.1

What parser (default, Babel-ESLint, etc.) are you using?
default

Please show your full configuration:

module.exports = {
    "rules": {
        "semi": [
            "error",
            "never"
        ]
    }
};

What did you do? Please include the actual source code causing the issue.
The only files I have in my project is the configuration file with a semi-colon

// .eslintrc.js
module.exports = {
    "rules": {
        "semi": [
            "error",
            "never"
        ]
    }
};

and another file that also breaks the no-semi colon rule

// index.js
var test = "this should cause an eslint error";

I ran the following command

eslint .

Expecting two errors (one for both files, but only got an error for index.js

C:\Dev\linting-eslintrc-issue\index.js
  1:47  error  Extra semicolon  semi

? 1 problem (1 error, 0 warnings)

I then ran

eslint .eslintrc.js

resulting in

C:\Dev\linting-eslintrc-issue\.eslintrc.js
  0:0  warning  File ignored by default.  Use a negated ignore pattern (like "--ignore-pattern '!<relative/path/to/filename>'") to override

So I assumed I had to un-ignore the eslintrc file, so I tried the following two commands

eslint --ignore-pattern '!.eslintrc.js' .
eslint --ignore-pattern '!.\.eslintrc.js' .

But still only saw an error results for index.js

C:\Dev\linting-eslintrc-issue\index.js
  1:47  error  Extra semicolon  semi

? 1 problem (1 error, 0 warnings)

How can I get eslint to validate the current project directory as well as the .eslintrc.js file?

[alberto]

Duplicate of #4828