Variable replacement in tasks.json produces "/"-less paths in cygwin since 1.32

[yarcod]

• VSCode Version: 1.32
• OS Version: Windows 7, cygwin

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a task which uses VSCode's variable replacement, e.g. ${relativeFile}.
2. Echo the result to cygwin terminal.
3. The output will have paths written without any separators, i.e., "/".

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

This used to work perfectly until 1.32 (I think that's when it broke, but fairly recently anyway). This issue is not present if you add an option to use Windows cmd instead; that will show a fully usable path.

[alexr00]

Looks like a duplicate of #70050, where the relative file's path separators are Windows path separators.

[vscodebot]

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[alexr00]

Actually, this might not be a duplicate. I will investigate more.

[alexr00]

@yarcod how do you use Cygwin for your integrated terminal?

[dwarcake]

Dunno for OP but I use git-bash as my default shell and seem to have the same problem

Snippet of our tasks.json file:

{
            "label": "Run aut",
            "group": "none",
            "type": "shell",
            "args": ["some_conenction", "@${relativeFile}"],
            "presentation": {
                "echo": true,
                "reveal": "silent",
                "focus": false,
                "panel": "shared",
                "showReuseMessage": true,
                "clear": false
            },

[alexr00]

Since the only instances of this happening are with relativeFile, this is a duplicate of #70050. See that issue for all the info, but relativeFile was incorrect. It is now fixed and has OS specific path separators.

[yarcod]

Sorry for the late reply! I looked at the possible duplicate and saw two things that did not align with my issue:

• The issue was limited to ${relativeFile} specifically, while I'm having issues with all variable replacements -- even ${workspaceFolder}. See below for more details.
• This problem only appears in cygwin and works great in cmd.

Cygwin in used like this:
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe",
"terminal.integrated.env.windows": {
"CHERE_INVOKING": "1"
},
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
"--login"
],

The task I am using looks like this:
{
"label": "Get SWC name",
"type": "shell",
"command": ".vscode/get_swc_name.sh",
"args": [
"${relativeFile}"
],
"group": "build",
"options": {
"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
},
"presentation": {
"reveal": "never",
"echo": false,
"showReuseMessage": false
}
},
Inside of that shell script I have placed an Echo command to see that the right path was chosen, and that path now comes without slashes.

EDIT: @alexr00 could you please take a look at this again and consider reopening? :)