Escaping characters when calling shell commands

[ristomatti]

I tried adding an alias to run a command what takes a hex color value as an argument, e.g.:

trigger = $(pastel --force-color paint "#cb4b16" "[trigger = $0]" >> LOG_FILE)

This fails with ERROR: Unterminated string in line x as # gets interpreted as the beginning of a comment. I tried escaping it using the common \ and \\ syntax but it still results in the same error.

Is there some undocumented syntax to do this by any chance? I could've reported this as a feature request, but it's just a minor inconvenience. In this particular case it turned out pastel doesn't require prefixing the value #.

Similarly it's not possible to escape characters [] in macro arguments (noticed this yesterday).

I probably should start writing shell script wrappers to this stuff anyhow to make things cleaner. 😁

[houmain]

Thanks for the report!
No, there is no way to escape these. # and ] in strings should not be interpreted.
I think this is worth an issue but it does not really matter, both will be fixed soon.

[ristomatti]

Issue gone after installing 4.6.0. 🚀