az cli az tag works in VSC powershell, fails in VSC bash about vscode-azurecli HOT 2 CLOSED

I found the solution. Running az tag with --debug showed the $PATH variable was being prepended to the resource ID. Searching for "azure vsc path appearing in az cli resource-id" turned up the following:

  https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/14299       "azure cli commands automatically appends git-bash path in the parameter that contains forward slash"

...which in turn pointed me to:

  https://github.com/fengzhou-msft/azure-cli/blob/ea149713de505fa0f8ae6bfa5d998e12fc8ff509/doc/use_cli_with_git_bash.md  -  "Use Azure CLI with Git Bash"

This identified the problem as a known issue and explained how to remediate/mitigate. Here is the pertinent excerpt:

"Auto-translation of Resource IDs
On Git Bash, if you specify command-line options starting with a slash, POSIX-to-Windows path conversion will kick in. This causes an issue for passing ARM Resource IDs, like:

To disable the path conversion. You can set enviroment variable MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 or set it temporarily when a running command:"

MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 az vm show --ids "/subscriptions/00.../resourceGroups/my-rg/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/my-vm"

I tried prepending and it worked, as does putting export MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 in your script.

So it wasn't an Az CLI issue at all, but a Git Bash issue.

Adam

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