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Can't get example to work

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the issue in example/files on Ubuntu using the listed browserify, browser-unpack, and factor-bundle commands. Inspect the generated bundle.js and bundle/common.js, then trace why bundle/x.js and bundle/y.js are not created. Done means the example produces all three expected output files or clearly documents the supported behavior.

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Description

I'm on ubuntu 14.04 with the latest version of browserify.

I can't get the simple example to work

git clone git@github.com:substack/factor-bundle.git
cd factor-bundle/example/files
mkdir bundle
browserify x.js y.js > bundle.js
browser-unpack < bundle.js | factor-bundle   x.js -o bundle/x.js   y.js -o bundle/y.js   > bundle/common.js

This results in the creation of bundle/common.js but no x.js or y.js

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