Expand a ~ character to a users home directory like bash
Given
var tilde = require('tilde-expansion');
You can do basic expansion
tilde('~root', function(s) {
console.log(s);
});
yields
/root
or even simpler
tilde('~/', function(s) {
console.log(s);
});
yields
/home/dave/
and get fancy with the PWD
tilde('~+', function(s) {
console.log(s);
});
yields
/home/dave/dev
- Any unrecognized expansions will result in the string being unchanged
- The node etc-passwd module is used to determine the home directory of a user
- If the user is not found on the system, the expansion will remain unaltered
- The string must be unquoted for any expansion to take place (see bash(1))
var tilde = require('tilde-expansion');
npm install tilde-expansion
npm test
MIT License