When passing arguments to ${...} there is no need to add quotes. Quotes will
be added automatically if needed.
let name = "foo & bar"
await $`mkdir ${name}`For quotes yzx uses special bash syntax (next commands are valid bash):
mkdir $'foo & bar'
$'ls' $'-la'If you add quotes "${name}", it will produce a wrong command.
If you need to add something extra, consider putting it inside curly brackets.
await $`mkdir ${"path/to-dir/" + name}`This will also work properly:
await $`mkdir path/to-dir/${name}`The yzx can also take an array or arguments in the ${...}. Items of the array
will be quoted separately and concatenated via a space.
Do not add a .join(' ').
let flags = ["--oneline", "--decorate", "--color"]
await $`git log ${flags}`If you already have a string with arrays, it's your responsibility to correctly parse it and distinguish separate arguments. For example like this:
await $`git log ${"--oneline --decorate --color".split(" ")}`As everything passed through ${...} will be escaped, you can't use ~ or glob
syntax.
In order for this to work with yzx, use the
globby package.
For instead of this:
let files = "~/dev/**/*.md" // wrong
await $`ls ${files}`Use globby function and os package:
let files = await globby(os.homedir() + "/dev/**/*.md")
await $`ls ${files}`