From e44789556b908782e7918a15ea61e7713f8d9e2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JT <547158+jntrnr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 21:20:31 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix path external (#684)

* Fix external invocation/expansion

* clippy
---
 crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs b/crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs
index 5e0d1a561..b267ae6d3 100644
--- a/crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-parser/src/parser.rs
@@ -194,9 +194,14 @@ pub fn parse_external_call(
     let name_span = spans[0];
     let name = String::from_utf8_lossy(working_set.get_span_contents(name_span)).to_string();
     let cwd = working_set.get_cwd();
-    let name = nu_path::expand_path_with(name, cwd)
-        .to_string_lossy()
-        .to_string();
+    let name = if name.starts_with('.') || name.starts_with('~') {
+        nu_path::expand_path_with(name, cwd)
+            .to_string_lossy()
+            .to_string()
+    } else {
+        name
+    };
+
     let mut error = None;
 
     for span in &spans[1..] {