secretGeek/ok-bash

Unexpected behaviour with parent paths

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With PR #38 parent paths were introduced. But in some cases the behaviour is unexpected.

To demonstrate this, I've added the zip-file parent_test.zip with a directory-structure.

# First the behaviour without the parent
cd parent_test
ok   # displays the file `parent_test/.ok`
ok 1 # shows the path `$BASE/parent_test`
ok 2 # shows "Hi, from ./test1.sh"
ok 3 # shows (with header & footer) the contents of the file `parent_test/.ok`

# And now with the parent
cd offspring
ok # shows nothing
ok --parent   # displays the file `parent_test/.ok`; expected
ok --parent 1 # shows the path `$BASE/parent_test/offspring`; expected
ok --parent 2 # shows "Hi, from $BASE/parent_test/test1.sh"; path is expanded, but not unexpected
ok --parent 3 # shows "cat: .ok: No such file or directory"; unexpected

The problem in my opinion is, the line from the .ok-file is changed (with sed) before it is executed. I think the working directory temporary needs to be changed. Something like:

pushd "$(pwd)"
cd $PARENT_PATH"
eval "$line_text"
popd

Also, if I read the source correctly, ok's argument --file is not respected when used together with --parent.

I'm willing to make a PR for this, but first I want to make sure if this is the behaviour we want. @sergiorgiraldo @secretGeek