The current recommendation relies on the user's shell's glob handling behaviour. It happens to work because generally something:* does not match any files, and so with sh's default behaviour it passes something:* as-is as an arg. This breaks down in some other shells though, for example, with zsh:
...or with yarn, as referenced in the issues that will be closed by this PR.
This change recommends quoting the globs with single quotes, which will avoid the glob expansion (which requires traversing the file system) and will also be more portable to work in more cases.
The current recommendation relies on the user's shell's glob handling behaviour. It happens to work because generally
something:*does not match any files, and so with sh's default behaviour it passessomething:*as-is as an arg. This breaks down in some other shells though, for example, with zsh:...or with yarn, as referenced in the issues that will be closed by this PR.
This change recommends quoting the globs with single quotes, which will avoid the glob expansion (which requires traversing the file system) and will also be more portable to work in more cases.
Closes https://github.com/mysticatea/npm-run-all/issues/200 Closes https://github.com/mysticatea/npm-run-all/issues/196