[PATCH] config: Expand ~ to $HOME
Bijan Chokoufe
bijan at chokoufe.com
Wed May 11 12:17:27 PDT 2016
so what would be the spec for handling ~user?
As Tomi pointed out ~foo will point to different folders if set by user
'foo' or by user 'bar'.
To what folder should it point and where do I get this information?
David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> schrieb am Di., 10. Mai 2016 um 10:22 Uhr:
> On Mon, May 09 2016, Bijan Chokoufe Nejad wrote:
>
> >> ~user is ~ in case you're 'user' -- except that now that I think of it
> >> ~user could read home directory from /etc/passwd and not using $HOME.
> >> If you're 'eve', then ~alice should definitely be different than ~
> >
> > OK I see. I never used ~user instead of ~ and don't see any advantage in
> using
> > ~user but good to know it's there.
>
> A solution that supports ~ but not ~user seems incomplete.
>
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