From 1ca3e03578c159a76473944b78270b8b9cae21a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JT <547158+jntrnr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:11:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix expanding external args (#847)
---
crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs
index b1c61ab84f..acbc3d3f8e 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs
@@ -302,10 +302,17 @@ impl<'call> ExternalCommand<'call> {
let mut process = std::process::Command::new(&new_head);
for arg in self.args.iter() {
- let arg = Spanned {
+ let mut arg = Spanned {
item: trim_enclosing_quotes(&arg.item),
span: arg.span,
};
+ arg.item = if arg.item.starts_with('~') || arg.item.starts_with("..") {
+ nu_path::expand_path_with(&arg.item, cwd)
+ .to_string_lossy()
+ .to_string()
+ } else {
+ arg.item
+ };
let cwd = PathBuf::from(cwd);