Having `&` in Directory name causing problems.

[butuzov]

• Task version: 3.35.1
• Operating system: darwin 13.6.5 (m1)
• Experiments enabled: no idea.

Running task in watch mode with next configuration

# https://taskfile.dev

version: '3'

vars:
  GREETING: Hello, World!

tasks:
  default:
    sources:
    - ./**/*.*
    - ./*.* 
    method: timestamp
    cmds:
      - ./update_me_please
    silent: true

Causes it to fail with proximatly next message

/Path/Teka/Father&Sone/first_path.txt: 1:64: & is not a valid word

So having "&" in folder is a problem...

related - #1069

[vergenzt]

I've encountered this same issue but with a different special character (parentheses!), and I think I've got a minimal reproduction:

# Taskfile.yml
version: '3'

vars:
  FILE_BASENAME: 'Filename with (parens) & other special chars'

tasks:
  gen:
    generates:
    - '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.txt'
    cmds:
    - echo foo > '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.in'

  default:
    deps: [gen]
    sources:
    - '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.in'
    generates:
    - '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.txt'
    cmds:
    - cp '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.in' '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.txt'

As-is, I get:

$ task
task: [gen] echo foo > 'Filename with (parens) & other special chars.in'
1:51: ( is not a valid word

However with the sources and generates lines from default task removed:

Taskfile.yml (updated)

# Taskfile.yml
version: '3'

vars:
  FILE_BASENAME: 'Filename with (parens) & other special chars'

tasks:
  gen:
    generates:
    - '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.txt'
    cmds:
    - echo foo > '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.in'

  default:
    deps: [gen]
    #sources:
    #- '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.in'
    #generates:
    #- '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.txt'
    cmds:
    - cp '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.in' '{{.FILE_BASENAME}}.txt'

the task seems to work fine:

$ task
task: [gen] echo foo > 'Filename with (parens) & other special chars.in'
task: [default] cp 'Filename with (parens) & other special chars.in' 'Filename with (parens) & other special chars.txt'

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Interestingly... this error only seems to happen when both sources and generates are provided values with special characters. When I commented out either one of the fields but not the other, the whole thing worked fine!

[andreynering]

Hi @butuzov and @vergenzt,

Thanks for the reproduction steps!

I managed to fix this bug on #1584.

[vergenzt]

Awesome!!! Thanks @andreynering!

When do you think #1584 will be able to be released? I have an active project that uses lots of special characters right now. 😅