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fix(shell): escape single quotes in pwsh env output - #12016
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughPowerShell script generation now escapes executable paths, environment names, and environment values with dedicated rules. Rust unit tests and Windows end-to-end tests cover apostrophes, special characters, spaces, unset paths, and executable paths containing ChangesPowerShell quoting
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In `@src/shell/pwsh.rs`:
- Around line 208-223: Update Pwsh::unset_env to use Remove-Item’s -LiteralPath
option instead of -Path, preserving the existing escaped environment-variable
name and error handling. Add a regression test through build_env_commands
covering a removed key containing wildcard characters, ensuring only that exact
environment variable is targeted.
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`powershell_escape` gated on `s.is_empty()`, so every non-empty string
returned unchanged and the empty one produced the same empty string -- the
whole escaping body was unreachable. Its rule was wrong anyway: it emitted
`` `' `` for a quote, but a backtick is not an escape inside a PowerShell
`'...'` literal, so the quote closed the string.
An apostrophe in any value therefore made the line fail to parse. A Windows
username like `O'Brien` puts one in PATH, so under `mise activate pwsh`
every `hook-env` output hit a ParserError and the environment was never
applied. bash escapes correctly through shell_escape, as do fish, nushell
and xonsh -- pwsh was the only backend whose escaper was inert.
Values now double the quote. Names move to `${Env:NAME}`, which is what
parses a name holding a space; inside those braces a backtick escapes the
next character, so backtick and `}` are escaped there. `unset_env` builds a
`-Path` argument, so it takes the value rule.
The exe path in the activation script moves from `"..."` to `'...'` for the
same reason in the other direction: `$` is legal in a Windows directory
name, and PowerShell expanded it away, invoking mise at a mangled path.
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Greptile SummaryThe PR corrects PowerShell environment serialization and executable invocation for values, names, and paths containing shell-significant characters.
Confidence Score: 5/5The PR appears safe to merge, with the changed PowerShell escaping paths consistently applied and covered by focused tests. The implementation preserves literal value and executable-path contents, escapes braced environment names consistently, prevents wildcard expansion during removal, and leaves no concrete blocking or non-blocking defect. Important Files Changed
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powershell_escapenever escaped anything:Only an empty string reached the body, where it produced the same empty string back — so the whole
escaping loop was unreachable. Its rule was wrong in any case: it emitted
`'for a quote, buta backtick is not an escape character inside a PowerShell
'...'literal (that is only true inside"..."), so the quote simply closed the string.An apostrophe in any value therefore produced a line PowerShell refuses to parse:
O'Brienis an ordinary Windows username, and a home directory feedsPATH. Undermise activate pwsh— the documented Windows setup — the activation script itself loads, but every_mise_hookpipeshook-env -s pwshintoInvoke-Expression, so each one hits a ParserError andthe environment is never applied.
Control
bash is correct —
export V='it'\''s here'viashell_escape::unix::escape— as are fish(
shell_escape), nushell (CSV"doubling) and xonsh (xonsh_escape_sq). pwsh was the onlybackend whose escaper was inert. The one case that worked was an empty value,
$Env:EMPTY='',which is exactly the branch that
is_empty()gate admitted.The existing tests use
set_env("FOO", "1"),prepend_env("PATH", "/some/dir:/2/dir")andunset_env("FOO")— no special characters anywhere, which is why the dead code went unnoticed.The change
Three interpolation contexts, each with its own rule. All four forms below were measured against
real
pwshbefore being written:$Env:MY VAR='x'(before)${Env:MY VAR}='x'${Env:A`}B}='x'-Path Env:/MY VAR(before)-Path 'Env:/MY VAR'Values (
set_env,prepend_env) double the quote:'→''. Nothing else is touched —escaping a backtick or
$inside'...'would be the same mistake in reverse, turning aliteral into something PowerShell acts on.
Names move to
${Env:NAME}. Bare$Env:NAMEcannot parse a name holding a space, which[env]in a config accepts; the braced form can. Inside the braces a backtick escapes the nextcharacter, so a backtick and the closing brace are escaped there and an apostrophe is left alone.
unset_envbuilds a cmdlet argument rather than a variable reference, so it is an ordinarysingle-quoted string and takes the value rule. It also moves from
-Pathto-LiteralPath:quoting settles how PowerShell parses the argument, but
Remove-Itemstill globs*,?and[...]inside a-Path. Measured, with two unrelated probe variables and one named*:That globbing is not new — the previous
-Path Env:/{k}was unquoted and globbed identically —but quoting the argument without this would have left the line looking safe while it was not.
-LiteralPathhas existed since PowerShell 2.0, so Windows PowerShell 5.1 is covered too.Both helpers allocate only when there is something to escape, the way
xonsh_escape_sqdoes forPython's rules.
The exe path, same bug in the other direction
The activation script invoked mise as
& "{exe}"— a double-quoted string, where PowerShell doesexpand
$nameand honour backticks. A$is legal in a Windows directory name, so that path wasmangled. Measured with a real directory and a real executable:
An apostrophe was harmless there, which is why this is a separate reproduction rather than part of
the one above. All six invocation sites move to
'...'through the same value escaper — a pathwants no expansion at all.
Verification
Measured on 2026.8.2 windows-x64 throughout: the ParserError above, the bash control, the empty-value
case, the four name/path forms in the table, and the exe path with a real
$directory. Afterwriting the fix I fed the exact strings it emits to
pwshrather than only reading them:Tests:
src/shell/pwsh.rs: quotes doubled; backtick,$,"and\left alone; empty value; quotes atboth edges; the braced-name forms;
unset_env's path, including that a name of*,?orPRE[FIX]is not globbed; and the activation script invoking a$path through single quotes.e2e-win/pwsh_env_quoting.Tests.ps1: runs what mise emits throughpwshand asserts the valueround-trips exactly, which is the part a unit test cannot reach. A no-apostrophe case is the
control, so the test cannot pass by emitting nothing.
The four snapshots are updated for the new
${Env:...}and& '...'shapes.cargo fmtwas run locally. The build, clippy and the test suite were not — those are left toCI, so behaviour after the fix rests on the measurements above and on the tests rather than on a
running binary. In particular the snapshots were edited by hand rather than regenerated with insta.
Found while auditing Windows behaviour, the same pass that produced #12007, #12008, #12012, #12013
and #12014. No existing issue or discussion covers it.
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