From: kjana@...4lab.to (YANAGAWA Kazuhisa)
Date: 2001-11-25T12:27:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26410] Re: Converting ~fred to home directory path

In message <20011125.112819.1555319301.31825@zipworld.com.au>
harryo@zipworld.com.au writes:

> In article <1006646006.774.0.camel@stargrazer>, "Sean Middleditch"
> <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> wrote:
> 
> > No no.  ~,^  Read the $HOME environment variable.  /etc/passwd might not
> > even have the user in it (login over NIS or LDAP).  $HOME is supposed to
> > be set by the login shell, so use that.
> 
> That will work for just "~", but won't work for "~fred" when I'm logged
> in as "jim".

File.expand_path should do such expansion.  Does it work?


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kjana@dm4lab.to                              November 25, 2001
Penny wise, pound foolish.