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Bash-special characters in program arguments are not escaped
Hi, thanks for making this. Nimcr is something that I use in probably all of my Nim sources.
I'm writing a tool to parse and sort some text data and it's similar to CSV, only it's separated by | pipes (and sometimes other characters), so I've made the column separator a parameter.
Giving the pipe symbol to the script doesn't really work, though, although it's quoted:
# running via nimcr, pipe unescaped - this may be a bug in how nimcr handles the params
$ ./sort.nim -d '|' -f 9 --mergeOutputs
sh: -f: command not found
SIGPIPE: Pipe closed.
# running via nimcr, pipe escaped - works at the moment
$ ./sort.nim -d '\|' -f 9 --mergeOutputs
[OK]
# running the resulting binary, pipe unescaped
$ ./.sort -d '|' -f 9 --mergeOutputs
[OK]
Interesting, unfortunately this might be hard to fix.. Shebangs are really quite brittle, so I suspect this is yet another issue with those.