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Unexpected behavior for the Placeholder syntax on windows powershell #735

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g-berthiaume opened this issue Mar 2, 2021 · 3 comments
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Unexpected behavior for the Placeholder syntax on windows powershell #735

g-berthiaume opened this issue Mar 2, 2021 · 3 comments
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@g-berthiaume
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What version of fd are you using?

$ fd --version
fd 8.2.1

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I want to list all files recursively in a directory while printing only the basename.

So instead of this:

dir1\test1.txt
dir1\test2.txt
dir2\testA.txt

I want this:

test1.txt
test2.txt
testA.txt

To my understanding, the best way to do so is to use fd -t f -x echo {/}.

On windows cmd.exe it works fine (but it's very slow).

fd -t f -x echo {/}
test1.txt
test2.txt
testA.txt

On windows powershell.exe, the output is not as expected.

$ fd -t f -x echo {/}
-encodedCommand LwA= -inputFormat xml -outputFormat text dir1\test1.txt
-encodedCommand LwA= -inputFormat xml -outputFormat text dir1\test2.txt
-encodedCommand LwA= -inputFormat xml -outputFormat text dir2\testA.txt

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Is this a bug?
Maybe a documentation problem?
Is there a better way than fd -t f -x echo {/} ?
@sharkdp
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sharkdp commented Mar 2, 2021

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Is this a bug?

I don't think so. You need to properly escape {} characters. Please see #646, #722, #310 for more details.

Maybe a documentation problem?

Possibly. It's not really fds fault. {} always need to be escaped in PowerShell. But we could maybe make sure that all examples use a syntax that would also work in PowerShell and mention it in the troubleshooting section here: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd#troubleshooting

Is there a better way than fd -t f -x echo {/} ?

Not really. Alternatively, you could use -x basename, if that's available on Windows.

@g-berthiaume
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Hi @sharkdp,
Thanks for your feedback and sorry for the duplication.

Is there a better way than fd -t f -x echo {/} ?

Not really

Yeah, this is what I thought. Not sure why it's so slow though.
Have a good day and thanks for fd; it's a joy to use.

@sharkdp
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sharkdp commented Mar 14, 2021

I am reopening this to make sure this will be updated in the documentation.

@sharkdp sharkdp reopened this Mar 14, 2021
@sharkdp sharkdp added this to the fd 9 milestone Aug 8, 2021
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