TSC --showConfig throws error instead of listing configuration

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Bug Report

Given this tsconfig.json file:

{"include":  ["./*"]}

… and running npx tsc --showConfig, an error was returned:

error TS18003: No inputs were found in config file 'D:/Documents/Visual Studio-Projekte/NodeJs/WebPack/SourceMaps-Test/tsconfig.json'. Specified 'include' paths were '["./*"]' and 'exclude' paths were '[]'.

Expected behavior:

The parsed configuration file's content should have been output, but no compilation been done.

🔎 Search Terms

showConfig errors

🕗 Version & Regression Information

Version 4.6.3

⏯ Playground Link

– see above –

💻 Code

{"include":  ["./*"]}

🙁 Actual behavior

An error was returned:

error TS18003: No inputs were found in config file 'D:/Documents/Visual Studio-Projekte/NodeJs/WebPack/SourceMaps-Test/tsconfig.json'. Specified 'include' paths were '["./*"]' and 'exclude' paths were '[]'.

🙂 Expected behavior

The parsed configuration file's content should have been output, but no compilation been done.