From: grzegorz@... (Grzegorz Chrupala)
Date: 2003-06-18T03:06:12+09:00
Subject: Re: File.expand_path with files beginnig with ~ (tilde) on Windoze

"Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote in message news:<bcmv8g$l5psh$1@ID-52924.news.dfncis.de>...
> 
> Does this work on a Unix platform?

It does:

irb(main):004:0> File.expand_path("~grzegorz")
=> "/home/grzegorz"

> 
> > I wonder whether this could/should be fixed.
> 
> I guess, it would not be a fix but an additional feature. The "~"

Well, I would simply like file names beginning with "~" to expand on
Windoze as any other file, that is, have the containing directory
prepended, instead of the string being returned as is. This current
behaviour seems broken to me.

> expansion on Unix systems is a shell feature and no Unix built in
> functionality.

Sorry, I was imprecise.

Cheers,
--
Grzegorz