feat: add tilde expansion to expand() #293
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This works right now with the old This still needs to be tested on Windows. |
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For future reference, this prefers |
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Why not just use os-homedir instead? I don't really feel like we need to reinvent the wheel. (It's also not really that big a deal either way).
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In terms of implementation, this should be very similar. I opted to just code it myself because it cuts out a dependency and it was only a few lines of code. I think it's easier to keep small snippets in the code base.
This adds tilde expansion to the expand() function. Arguments starting with '~/' will have the tilde expanded to the user's home directory, as with Bash.
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Did this ever get tested on Windows? |
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@ariporad good catch! I did test it on my Windows 7 machine. It passes the cd('~');
echo(pwd());
cd('~/Documents'); // still works, evven with a forward slash
echo(pwd());
cd('~');
echo(pwd()); |
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That was testing on Windows 7 64 bit, Node v5, running through |
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LGTM! |
feat: add tilde expansion to expand()
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This adds tilde expansion to the expand() function. Arguments starting with '~/'
will have the tilde expanded to the user's home directory, as with Bash.
Also, if an argument is simply
~, then it will expand to the home directory as well.This does not support all of Bash's tilde expansion (not sure if this would be difficult). For example: