Fzf: ENV variable with space & preview

[ahmedelgabri]

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I have an ENV variable for a path that has a space in it, export NOTE_DIR="~/path/to folder/" when I try to expand it inside the --preview flag it gets split into two.

    local file
    file=$(find "${NOTE_DIR}" -name "*.md" | \
      sed -e "s|${NOTE_DIR}/||" | \
      fzf-tmux \
      --multi \
      --select-1 \
      --exit-0 \
      --preview="cat ${NOTE_DIR}/{}" \ # $NOTE_DIR doesn't get expanded properly here
      --preview-window=right:70%:wrap)
    [[ -n $file ]] && \
      ${EDITOR:-vim} "${NOTE_DIR}/${file}"

[deepredsky]

This is default behaviour with bash and zsh. In your example ls ${NOTE_DIR} will also fail.

Adding double quotes around the brace expansion will fix it.

Try this

local file
    file=$(find "${NOTE_DIR}" -name "*.md" | \
      sed -e "s|${NOTE_DIR}/||" | \
      fzf-tmux \
      --multi \
      --select-1 \
      --exit-0 \
      --preview="cat \"${NOTE_DIR}\"/{}" \
      --preview-window=right:70%:wrap)
    [[ -n $file ]] && \
      ${EDITOR:-vim} "${NOTE_DIR}/${file}"

[junegunn]

@deepredsky Thanks!

[ahmedelgabri]

Thanks @deepredsky 👍