Passing filepath with special characters to cspell does not work as expected.

[madostFKA]

I am running cspell in a pre-commit hook like this.

// .lintstagedrc.mjs

export default {
  "*.tsx" : ['cspell']
}

This works fine until a remix route file app/routes/($optional)/route.tsx is staged. The file will not be checked, but looking at the output from the --verbose flag says the fileGlob is picked up.

× cspell --verbose:
CSpell: Files checked: 0, Issues found: 0 in 0 files

cspell;
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 15:37:02 GMT
Options:
    verbose:   Yes
    config:    default
    exclude:   node_modules/**
    files:     app/routes/($optional)/route.tsx
    wordsOnly: No
    unique:    No

I have tried to escape the parentheses and the dollar sign, but no success.
I have tried to run this via a terminal(bash). also escaping parentheses and dollar sign

bash cmd: yarn cspell 'app/routes/($optional)/route.tsx'

yarn run v1.22.19
$ C:\Users\anon\repos\repo\node_modules\.bin\cspell "app/routes/($optional)/route.tsx"
CSpell: Files checked: 0, Issues found: 0 in 0 files
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

but replacing the ($optional) with asterix works just fine.

bash cmd: yarn cspell 'app/routes/**/route.tsx'

yarn run v1.22.19
$ C:\Users\anon\repos\repo\node_modules\.bin\cspell app/routes/**/route.tsx
1/1 .\app\routes\($optional)\route.tsx 484.69ms X
c:\Users\repos\repo\app\routes\($optional)\route.tsx:4:8 - Unknown word (dont)
c:\Users\repos\repo\app\routes\($optional)\route.tsx:4:25 - Unknown word (writte)
CSpell: Files checked: 1, Issues found: 2 in 1 files
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

Am i doing something wrong with how i escape the characters?

reproduction repo: https://github.com/madostFKA/cspellbug

[Jason3S]

@madostFKA,

I can see the confusion. By default, cspell works with globs, not file paths. () has special meaning in a glob.

The file:// prefix tells the spell checker to assume it is a file.

cspell "file://./test/($hello)/files/text.txt"
1/1 ./test/(hello)/files/text.txt 252.59ms

or you can use a file list file --file-list file-with-list-of-files-to-check.txt
or you can pipe it: echo "test/(\$hello)/files/text.txt" | cspell --file-list stdin

[madostFKA]

@madostFKA,

I can see the confusion. By default, cspell works with globs, not file paths. () has special meaning in a glob.

The file:// prefix tells the spell checker to assume it is a file.

cspell "file://./test/($hello)/files/text.txt"
1/1 ./test/(hello)/files/text.txt 252.59ms

or you can use a file list file --file-list file-with-list-of-files-to-check.txt or you can pipe it: echo "test/(\$hello)/files/text.txt" | cspell --file-list stdin

Thank you for the response!

For those wondering, my lintstaged config ended up looking like this.

export default {
  "*.(js|jsx|ts|tsx|module.css|mdx|md)": (stagedFiles) => {
    const formattedStagedFiles = stagedFiles
      .map((file) => `'file:///${file}'`)
      .join(" ");

    return [
      `cspell lint ${formattedStagedFiles}`,
      `prettier --write ${stagedFiles.join(" ")}`,
    ];
  },
  "*.(js|jsx|ts|tsx)": "eslint --fix",
};