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.
npm i expand-tilde --save
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
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue
Jon Schlinkert
Copyright (c) 2015 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license
This file was generated by verb on January 19, 2015.
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 6,581,398 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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