Re: how to expand home directory ~

Those 2 paths are not the same:

/home/madam is the home directory of user madam.
~/madam is a subdirectory of the current user's home directory. The current user may not be madam.

Maybe you made a typo and you meant ~madam not ~/madam - in which case they should be the same...

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Re^2: how to expand home directory ~ by muntfish (Chaplain) on Jun 02, 2005 at 12:31 UTC
Of course my previous post may be irrelevant, as Joost points out, Perl doesn't expand ~ anyway... There are a few different ways to expand ~, if you need to: Globbing - either `<~madam>` or `glob('~madam')` should both work, or you can look at File::Glob. Regexp to replace `~` with `$ENV{HOME}` assuming $HOME is set (it almost always is) on your Unix environment. That only works if you're interested in the current user's home dir of course. Some other module may do it - File::Spec doesn't but there are heaps of other modules under File:: on CPAN! Hope that helps! s^^unp(;75N=&9I<V@`ack(u,^;s\|\(.+\`\|"$`$'\"$&\"\)"\|ee;/m.+h/&&print$&	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: how to expand home directory ~
by muntfish (Chaplain) on Jun 02, 2005 at 12:31 UTC

Of course my previous post may be irrelevant, as Joost points out, Perl doesn't expand ~ anyway...

There are a few different ways to expand ~, if you need to:

Globbing - either <~madam> or glob('~madam') should both work, or you can look at File::Glob.
Regexp to replace ~ with $ENV{HOME} assuming $HOME is set (it almost always is) on your Unix environment. That only works if you're interested in the current user's home dir of course.
Some other module may do it - File::Spec doesn't but there are heaps of other modules under File:: on CPAN!

Hope that helps!

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