[Israel.pm] Cwd::abs_path and "~"

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 16:24, Offer Kaye wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to pass a path containing the tilda "~" sign in the beginning to
> Cwd's abs_path fuction, but I get back undef instead of the full path:
>
> use Cwd qw(abs_path);
> my $full_path = abs_path("~/some/path") or die "Couldn't resolve path\n";
>

~ is not a real pathname. In C-shell and many other shells (tcsh, bash, zsh, 
etc.) it is an alias for the environment variable $HOME. The correct syntax 
would be:

abs_path("$ENV{HOME}/some/path");

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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