From 1725e8afa3df52f1be64c51103398854edfc5912 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yang Yan <yangawesome@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 19:13:22 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Escape special regex characters in library path scan

---
 src/ui/actions/LibraryActions.ts | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ui/actions/LibraryActions.ts b/src/ui/actions/LibraryActions.ts
index e0eb60527..bd199ca64 100644
--- a/src/ui/actions/LibraryActions.ts
+++ b/src/ui/actions/LibraryActions.ts
@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ export const add = async (pathsToScan: string[]) => {
 
     // 3. Scan all the directories with globby
     const globbies = folders.map((folder) => {
-      const pattern = `${folder.replace(/\\/g, '/')}/**/*.*`;
+      // Normalize slashes and escape regex special characters
+      const pattern = `${folder.replace(/\\/g, '/').replace(/([$^*+?()\[\]])/g, '\\$1')}/**/*.*`;
 
       console.log(pattern);
       return globby(pattern, { followSymbolicLinks: true });