Cspell does not find any files

[tomaszs]

Info

Kind of Issue

• [ X] runtime - command-line tools
• building / compiling
• security
• change in behavior
• crash / error

Which Tool or library

• [ X] cspell -- the command-line spelling tool
• cspell-tools -- used for building dictionary files
• cspell-lib -- library that does the actual spell checking.
• cspell-trie -- tool for working with trie files.

Which Version

Version: 5.13.4

Issue with supporting library?

• [X ] No
• cspell-glob -- library for matching glob patterns
• cspell-io -- thin file i/o library
• cspell-trie-lib - trie lib
• cspell-trie2-lib - trie lib alternate format

OS:

• Macos
• Linux
• [ X] Windows
• Other

version:

OS version if applicable. 7

Bug Description

Cspell does not find any files

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Define package.json script: "cspell": "cspell lint --no-progress --show-suggestions '**'",
2. Install cspell globally
3. Add cspell location to PATH
4. Execute npm run cspell

Result:

CSpell: Files checked: 0, Issues found: 0 in 0 files
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! ....: cspell lint --show-suggestions -v '**' --config cspell.json
npm ERR! Exit status 1

Expected behavior

Cspell finds projects files and processes them.

[nschonni]

Single quotes don't expand globs. "cspell": "cspell lint --no-progress --show-suggestions \"**\""

[Jason3S]

@tomaszs,

As @nschonni said, single quotes ' do not work on windows. You must use ". Did you copy example code?

[tomaszs]

Thanks for answers. I don't know from where the code was used unfortunately.
One quick question: if I use double quotes, will it work on MacOS and Linux as well?

[Jason3S]

Thanks for answers. I don't know from where the code was used unfortunately. One quick question: if I use double quotes, will it work on MacOS and Linux as well?

Yes, double quotes works just fine on the MacOS and Linux. So do the single quotes, which is why I asked about the original example.

• cspell '**' will work just fine on the Mac and in Linux, it just fails on Windows.
• cspell "**" will work on all of them.

[tomaszs]

Thanks!

[tomaszs]

It would be helpful to add a note about it to Readme. I remember I was looking for any phrase related to cspell and Windows, since it was quite easy to narrow it down to Windows.

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