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bug: space in directory name prevents hooks from executing in bash
What happened?
Having a space in a directory name that devbox shell is called in, will result in bash stating:
me@main-lt:~/Documents/rm scripts$ devbox shell
Starting a devbox shell...
bash: /home/me/Documents/rm: No such file or directory
Looking at one of the generated files we can find the cause: spaces are not escaped, nor is the path in quotes.
me@main-lt:~/Documents/rm scripts$ cat .devbox/gen/scripts/.hooks.sh
/home/me/Documents/rm scripts/.devbox/virtenv/python/bin/venvShellHook.sh
echo 'Welcome to devbox!' > /dev/null
If I escape the space, the error no longer appears. Tested on Ubuntu 25.04
Steps to reproduce
- create a directory with a space in it's name
- run
devbox init - run
devbox shell
Command
shell
devbox.json
{
"$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jetify-com/devbox/0.15.1/.schema/devbox.schema.json",
"packages": ["[email protected]"],
"shell": {
"init_hook": [
"echo 'Welcome to devbox!' > /dev/null"
],
"scripts": {
"test": [
"echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
]
}
}
}
Devbox version
0.15.1
Nix version
2.30.2
What system does this bug occur on?
Linux (x86-64)
Debug logs
No response