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[ BUG ] Insert does not work on MacOS 10.15.7 zsh

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
macos, shell, zsh
Domain
cli, operating-systems

Research direction

Start at the gh-md-toc --insert entry point and reproduce the command against Readme.md on macOS 10.15.7 with zsh. Compare the failing grep -Fxq check with the working grep -F form; done means the insert command recognizes the existing and markers.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

bug

Describe the bug
When running gh-md-toc --insert ./Readme.md i get

You don't have <!--ts--> or <!--te--> in your file...exiting

It seems this comes down to this command not working

kyle@Emilys-MacBook-Pro kubectl-opslevel % grep -Fxq "<\!--ts-->" Readme.md

but this one does

kyle@Emilys-MacBook-Pro kubectl-opslevel % grep -F "<\!--ts-->" Readme.md
<!--ts-->

Notice the arguments to grep. I'm using zsh (the macos native shell now - not sure if that has an impact)

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