Running shell commands with piping operator "|" results in unknown operator error

[adam2392]

Hi,

Great tool!

I'm trying to run the following command inside my pyproject.toml file with poetry.

[tool.poe.tasks]
clean_so = """
find . -name "*.so" | xargs rm -f
find . -name "*.pyd" | xargs rm -f
"""

However, when I run poetry run poe clean_so, I get the following error: find: |: unknown primary or operator. Is there a way to run shell commands with shell-command operators?

[nat-n]

Indeed, the default task type (cmd) is executed as a subprocess without a shell. If you want to use shell features like the pipe operator then you need to create a shell task which can be done like so:

[tool.poe.tasks]
clean_so.shell = """
find . -name "*.so" | xargs rm -f
find . -name "*.pyd" | xargs rm -f
"""

Be aware that this will only work as expected if a POSIX shell can be found in the host environment, which is not always the case on windows.

See the section of the readme about task types for more details.

[adam2392]

Thanks!