expand-tilde
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Package description
The expand-tilde npm package is designed to expand the tilde (~) in file paths to the user's home directory. This is particularly useful in Node.js applications where you might need to access or specify paths relative to the user's home directory in a platform-independent way.
Expand tilde to home directory
This feature allows the expansion of the tilde (~) to the current user's home directory. In the code sample, '~/example' is expanded to the full path, such as '/Users/username/example' on macOS or Linux, and 'C:\Users\username\example' on Windows.
const expandTilde = require('expand-tilde');
console.log(expandTilde('~/example'));Similar to expand-tilde, untildify converts a tilde path to an absolute path by expanding the tilde to the user's home directory. The main difference is in the implementation details and API design, but both serve the same purpose of tilde expansion.
While not directly offering tilde expansion, os-homedir provides a way to find the user's home directory across different platforms. It can be used in conjunction with other path manipulation methods to achieve similar outcomes as expand-tilde.
Readme
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 with npm:
$ npm install --save expand-tilde
See the Bash documentation for Tilde Expansion.
var expandTilde = require('expand-tilde');
expandTilde('~')
//=> '/Users/jonschlinkert'
expandTilde('~+')
//=> process.cwd()
Install dev dependencies:
npm i -d && npm test
true if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern… more | homepagePull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
(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:
$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb
Install dev dependencies:
$ npm install -d && npm test
Jon Schlinkert
Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.
This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.2.0, on December 08, 2016.
FAQs
Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. Expands a leading tilde in a file path to the user home directory, or `~+` to the cwd.
The npm package expand-tilde receives a total of 6,243,591 weekly downloads. As such, expand-tilde popularity was classified as popular.
We found that expand-tilde demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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