Quotes disappear from arguments when running script through bass

[aommm]

Hi,

First of all, this is probably not a bug but more of a support request. Sorry if this is the wrong forum!

Quotes from my input arguments disappear when I run my script though bass, but they remain when I run it through bash.

I have a script:

# my-script.sh
echo $@

When I run it with bash the quotes are preserved (expected):

> bash my-script.sh '{"a":"b"}'
{"a":"b"}

However, when I run it through bass then the quotes disappear (unexpected):

> bass source my-script.sh '{"a":"b"}'
{a:b}
> bass bash my-script.sh '{"a":"b"}'
{a:b}

Would love to get some guidance here! Again, this is probably not a bug in bass, but just a lack of understanding on my part.

[aommm]

This seems to be caused by passing the '{"a":"b"}' argument through multiple different shells, each shell stripping some of the quotes. In my case, the outermost quotes ' are stripped by fish, and the innermost " are stripped by bash.

I wanted to solve this without forcing the user to write a bunch of \ manually. I managed to create a workaround that works in my case.

Workaround

I'm creating a new fish function myscript that wraps my-script.sh:

function myscript
    # Need to transform {"a":1} into {\"a\":1} before passing to bass
    set quoted_argv (echo "$argv" | sed --expression 's/"/\\\\"/g')
    bass source /path/to/my-script.sh "$quoted_argv"
end

This then works correctly:

> myscript '{"a":"b"}'
{"a":"b"}

[edc]

Thanks for documenting this. Can we close this then?

[aommm]

Yep it can!