From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-06-17T21:03:42+09:00
Subject: Re: File.expand_path with files beginnig with ~ (tilde) on Windoze


"Grzegorz Chrupala" <grzegorz@pithekos.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:8b9e2260.0306170157.6b11784d@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
> I have noticed the following Ruby-on-Windoze gotcha:
>
> File.expand_path("~$some_m$word_tmp_file", ".")
>
> returns just the filename, no expansion is done. I guess this has
> something to do with Unix using names starting with "~" for home
> directories.

Does this work on a Unix platform?

> I wonder whether this could/should be fixed.

I guess, it would not be a fix but an additional feature. The "~"
expansion on Unix systems is a shell feature and no Unix built in
functionality.

Cheers

    robert