.chezmoi.cacheDir variable has mixed path separators on Windows

[drwicid]

Describe the bug

On Windows, the .chezmoi.cacheDir variable uses mixed path separators. This may cause toml: non-hex character error if chezmoi reads the path string.

To reproduce

Quick repro of the mixed case:

> chezmoi execute-template "{{ .chezmoi.cacheDir }}"
C:\Users\drwic\.cache/chezmoi

To reproduce the error, create this config template:

encryption = "age"
[age]
   identity = "{{ .chezmoi.cacheDir }}/age.txt"

Execute chezmoi init

chezmoi: C:/Users/drwic/.local/share/chezmoi/home/.chezmoi.toml.tmpl: toml: non-hex character

Expected behavior

cacheDir should have consistent path separators.

Additional Info

Passing this config through execute-template:

encryption = "age"

[age]
   # Bug
   identity = "{{ .chezmoi.cacheDir }}/age.txt"

   # Workaround
   identity = "{{ .chezmoi.cacheDir | replaceAllRegex "\\\\" "/" }}/age.txt"

outputs:

encryption = "age"

[age]
   # Bug
   identity = "C:\Users\drwic\.cache/chezmoi/age.txt"

   # Workaround
   identity = "C:/Users/drwic/.cache/chezmoi/age.txt"

[twpayne]

Thanks for reporting this. It is fixed with #3475.

Note that a better work-around is to use the quote template function as this handles all characters that need to be escaped, not just backslashes.

[age]
    identity = {{ joinPath .chezmoi.cacheDir "age.txt" | quote }}

[halostatue]

You could also use | toToml instead of | quote.

[twpayne]

You could also use | toToml instead of | quote.

That's an even better solution, thank you.

[drwicid]

Thanks for the alternatives. I'm two weeks into my chezmoi noob journey and loving this tool. I'll take this as an assignment to RTFM and master all those functions ;-)