How can I skip globbing of filenames in skip? How can I skip files with [ ] characters in its name?

[matkoniecz]

-S SKIP, --skip SKIP comma-separated list of files to skip. It accepts globs as well.

As expected, without --skip all files gets typos detected

mateusz@grima:~/Desktop/tmp$ codespell
./example file with actual [weird signs in it]:1: speling ==> spelling
./simple:1: speling ==> spelling
./expected:1: speling ==> spelling

Skipping fails for one with [ ] as it gets globbed:

mateusz@grima:~/Desktop/tmp$ codespell --skip "example file with actual [weird signs in it]" --skip simple
./example file with actual [weird signs in it]:1: speling ==> spelling
./expected:1: speling ==> spelling

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Yes, it is an actual filename

And yes, it happened with already existing files. It is sadly not some contrived setup.

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Workaround

one may use

codespell --skip "example file with actual [weird signs in it]" --skip simple |grep -Fv "example file with actual [weird signs in it]:1: speling ==> spelling"

F is --fixed-strings PATTERNS are strings

This gives expected

./expected:1: speling ==> spelling

(note that in codespell both fixes strings and globs may be used in one command)

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Bonus crash

Also, as result codespell --skip "example file with actual [weird signs in it and b-a]" goes down with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mateusz/.local/bin/codespell", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(_script_main())
  File "/home/mateusz/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/codespell_lib/_codespell.py", line 748, in _script_main
    return main(*sys.argv[1:])
  File "/home/mateusz/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/codespell_lib/_codespell.py", line 876, in main
    if glob_match.match(root):  # skip (absolute) directories
  File "/home/mateusz/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/codespell_lib/_codespell.py", line 108, in match
    if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, p):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/fnmatch.py", line 36, in fnmatch
    return fnmatchcase(name, pat)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/fnmatch.py", line 70, in fnmatchcase
    match = _compile_pattern(pat)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/fnmatch.py", line 46, in _compile_pattern
    return re.compile(res).match
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/re.py", line 252, in compile
    return _compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/re.py", line 304, in _compile
    p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/sre_compile.py", line 764, in compile
    p = sre_parse.parse(p, flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/sre_parse.py", line 948, in parse
    p = _parse_sub(source, state, flags & SRE_FLAG_VERBOSE, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/sre_parse.py", line 443, in _parse_sub
    itemsappend(_parse(source, state, verbose, nested + 1,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/sre_parse.py", line 834, in _parse
    p = _parse_sub(source, state, sub_verbose, nested + 1)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/sre_parse.py", line 443, in _parse_sub
    itemsappend(_parse(source, state, verbose, nested + 1,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/sre_parse.py", line 598, in _parse
    raise source.error(msg, len(this) + 1 + len(that))
re.error: bad character range b-a at position 56

[matkoniecz]

Note: I am also fine with solution "use overcomplicated grep workarounds for your overcomplicated file names" if there is no viable and real way to fix it given various limitations, including "we have 74 pull requests and 110 issues more important than this".

[peternewman]

python3 -m codespell_lib test --skip simple --skip "example file with actual [[]weird signs in it[]]"
test/expected:1: speling ==> spelling

Care of:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2595119/glob-and-bracket-characters

The character class thing is a genuine bug though...