Including square brackets in arguments does not pass to poe about poethepoet HOT 2 OPEN

Hi @stephen-spar, thanks for reporting this issue.

It looks like the square brackets from the argument are getting picked up in the cmd task as glob pattern to be interpreted. I agree that this is surprising, and I'm going to leave this issue open to think about how to improve it.

This is a quirk of the design at the intersection of how cmd tasks implement shell like features (including parameter expansion and glob expansion) and how they interpolate CLI arguments as env vars.

I think you can get around this by quoting the parameter expansion in your task definition like so:

[tool.poe.tasks.add]
sequence = [{ cmd = "poetry add \"$package\"" }, { ref = "sync-dev-deps" }]
args = [{ name = "package", positional = true }]

The logic here is similar to bash, where you can disable glob expansion with quotes.

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@nat-n ah, thank you for the workaround - works a treat. Appreciate your quick response, and again, thanks for the phenomenal tool, it vastly improves the DX of the project I'm working on. Keep up the great work!!

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