Command not executing because of (path?) normalization

[marcelgerber]

Hi, I was trying to use this package to execute the following command:

sed -i -e "s/bcrypt[^']*//g" somefile.txt

This runs just fine in the shell, but will fail with the following error when run via tinyexec:

ExecError: sed: 1: "s/bcrypt[^']*/g": unterminated substitute in regular expression

I assume that this is due to some sort of path normalization, which replaces // with /?

Code to repro:

import { exec } from "tinyexec"

const res = await exec(`sed -i -e "s/bcrypt[^']*//g" somefile.txt`, undefined, { nodeOptions: { shell: true }})
console.log(res)

[43081j]

this is because you need to call tinyexec with the command and args just like in child_process:

exec('sed', [
  '-i',
  '-e',
  '"s/bcrypt[^\']*//g"',
  'somefile.txt'
]);

or use args-tokenizer:
https://github.com/tinylibs/tinyexec?tab=readme-ov-file#using-with-command-strings