spaCy project.yml script argument quoting

[jonbuffington]

I noticed that the second argument of a script line is automatically quoted when executed. The automatic quoting interferes with the shell recognizing the globpat.

E.g., Given the following project.yml fragment:

commands:
- name: clean
  help: Remove intermediate files
  script:
  - rm -f corpus/*.spacy

execution using spaCy 3.2.2 yields:

$ python -m spacy project run clean

=================================== clean ===================================
Running command: rm -f 'corpus/*.spacy'

where the automatic quoting interferes with the shell matching the .spacy files in the corpus directory.

As a work-around, I used sh -c:

- name: clean
  help: Remove intermediate files
  script:
  - sh -c "rm -f corpus/*.spacy"

Is there an option to disable spacy project run's automatic second argument quoting?

[adrianeboyd]

The project commands are executed with subprocess.run(shell=False), so the issue is not just the quotes. I think that using sh -c is fine as a workaround, as is creating a separate shell script that is called instead for more complicated commands.

[jonbuffington]

@adrianeboyd Thanks for confirming!