From b4c72e85e12f7a80ccc3d30164d53533f53ce901 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JT <547158+jntrnr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:09:53 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Limit when we expand external args (#668)
---
crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs
index e6708cfab8..8825d3700d 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs
@@ -264,9 +264,13 @@ impl<'call> ExternalCommand<'call> {
for arg in &self.args {
let arg = trim_enclosing_quotes(arg);
- let arg = nu_path::expand_path_with(arg, cwd)
- .to_string_lossy()
- .to_string();
+ let arg = if arg.starts_with('~') || arg.starts_with("..") {
+ nu_path::expand_path_with(arg, cwd)
+ .to_string_lossy()
+ .to_string()
+ } else {
+ arg
+ };
let arg = arg.replace("\\", "\\\\");