--instance flag is returning a "unknown option" error

[mdurfee]

[REQUIRED] Environment info

13.32.0

Windows

[REQUIRED] Test case

firebase --project myfirebasetest --instance myfirebasetest-cxid-vor00000 database:remove /DATAB/EXAMPLE
error: unknown option '--instance'

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

When using the --project and --instance flags to perform a bulk data delete

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

Bulk Data delete for specified instance (shard) completes after warnings are confirmed.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

error: unknown option '--instance'

[aalej]

Hey @mdurfee, thanks for reporting this. From what I can gather, this looks like an issue with how the Firebase CLI parses the command options. Re-arranging the command to something like below works:

firebase database:remove /PATH --project PROJECT_ID --instance INSTANCE

Could you give the above a try to see if this would work?

It also looks like this behavior started on firebase-tools v13.26.0. I'll check this with our engineering team to get a better idea of what could have cause this.