devbox run reevaluates shell expression

[acuteaura]

What happened?

[aurelia@chariot:~]$ echo '$HOME'
$HOME

[aurelia@chariot:~]$ devbox run echo '$HOME'
/home/aurelia

This is a big problem with anything containing a $ evaluating to nothing when trying to wrap existing pipelines, for instance:

• doing envsubst style replacements with sed wouldn't work, even when escaped
• logging in to harbor with a robot$scope username doesn't work

Command

run

Devbox version

0.13.6

Nix version

nix (Lix, like Nix) 2.91.1

What system does this bug occur on?

Linux (x86-64)

Debug logs

No response

[acuteaura]

maybe this makes the problem more clear:

[aurelia@chariot:~]$ export INNER="i'm inside"

[aurelia@chariot:~]$ export OUTER='$INNER'

[aurelia@chariot:~]$ devbox run echo $OUTER
i'm inside

[acuteaura]

For GitHub Actions, adding this to run steps fixes the problem.

shell: devbox run -- bash {0}