From e09160e80d11e1b096a8f3c0eb3e2c42db837053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Blecher <notryanb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:22:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add ability to create PathBuf from string to avoid type
 mismatch

---
 src/data/base.rs | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/data/base.rs b/src/data/base.rs
index 2cf1f2ced..bc567f0df 100644
--- a/src/data/base.rs
+++ b/src/data/base.rs
@@ -817,6 +817,7 @@ impl Tagged<Value> {
     pub(crate) fn as_path(&self) -> Result<PathBuf, ShellError> {
         match self.item() {
             Value::Primitive(Primitive::Path(path)) => Ok(path.clone()),
+            Value::Primitive(Primitive::String(path_str)) => Ok(PathBuf::from(&path_str).clone()),
             other => Err(ShellError::type_error(
                 "Path",
                 other.type_name().tagged(self.tag()),