I was testing a package and want to set the package as my project directory for test. When I pass my relative path ~/.julia/dev/Gym/ as --project=, the following error occurs. vish@eliteone:~/.julia/dev/Gym$ julia --project=~/.julia/dev/Gym/ -e "using Pkg; Pkg.test(\"Gym\")" --color=yes ERROR: The…

Only your shell knows what ~ means; to Julia it’s just another character. However, you can tell your shell to expand it to your actual home directory using the $HOME environment variable. For example: julia --project="$HOME/.julia/dev/Gym" ...

Error in command line arg --project with "~"

General Usage

chakravala April 21, 2019, 1:40pm 5

Julia could also address this issue internally,

by calling expanduser on the string.

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Error in command line arg --project with "~"

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