expand-tilde

Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. Expands a leading tilde in a file path to the user home directory, or ~+ to the cwd.

Install

Install with npm:

1$ npm install --save expand-tilde

Usage

See the Bash documentation for Tilde Expansion.

1var expandTilde = require('expand-tilde');
2
3expandTilde('~')
4//=> '/Users/jonschlinkert'
5
6expandTilde('~+')
7//=> process.cwd()

Run tests

Install dev dependencies:

1npm i -d && npm test

About

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Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Building docs

(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in .verb.md.)

To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:

1$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

1$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

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