I noticed that the tilde symbol is not handled by abspath. What function should I use to expand a path shorthand? julia> expanduser("~/.julia") "/home/michael/.julia" julia> abspath("~/.julia") "/home/michael/~/.julia" A quick workaround would be : julia> fullpath = abspath∘expanduser abspath ∘ …

Why is expanduser not used in abspath

giordano March 19, 2022, 4:58pm 2

Why is expanduser not used in abspath

~ is a valid directory name.

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