I work on a Linux system, meaning that in my mind ~ means home directory. Sometimes I like to refer to a config file relative to a home folder in any (Linux) system. Which means that writing ~/.config/file.cfg would be very useful to me. However Julia/ispath() doesn’t seem top recognize this alias…

You can do ispath(expanduser("~/a_file_in_my_home_dir.txt"))

Is there a way to make julia aware of ~ as the home directory on linux

jonasjonker March 5, 2021, 1:50pm 7

Ah, true.

But that means it won’t necessarily work on other operating systems. Good to keep in mind.

Is this a bug, or expected behavior

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