predefined variable error on tasks.json

[sbwtw]

• VSCode Version: 1.1.1
• OS Version: Archlinux

Steps to Reproduce:

1. create new project and set tasks.json
2. command is set to echo, and args set to ["${file}", "${fileBaseName}"]
3. run task with some file, like a.txt.
4. ${file} and ${fileBaseName} are same string

[dbaeumer]

This is what I see under Windows:

running command> echo p:\mseng\VSCode\Playgrounds\tasks\.vscode\tasks.json, tasks.json
"p:\mseng\VSCode\Playgrounds\tasks\.vscode\tasks.json, tasks.json"

Checking under Linux now.

[dbaeumer]

The tasks.json is:

{
    // See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
    // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "echo",
    "isShellCommand": true,
    "echoCommand": true,
    "args": ["${file}, ${fileBasename}"]
}

Note that the var for the basename is ${fileBasename}

[dbaeumer]

Same is true for Linux (Elementary OS).

[dbaeumer]

I am closing the issue. Please ping with steps to reproduce if you still see this.

[dbaeumer]

We get the base name using and node function which should be independent of the Linux you use. That is why I closed it. To double check you could execute the following snippet in a node environment:

var path = require('path');
path.basename('/home/dirkb/test.txt');

This should print:

'test.txt'