use a tilde symbol for home directory representation

Open Source Solid Modeling CAD

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Milestone: Minor Effort

Status: open

Owner: nobody

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Priority: 5

Updated: 2011-03-08

Created: 2011-03-08

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It would be useful if we could use a tilde symbol for representation of the home directory in mget scripts. For example:

opendb ~/brlcad/sphere2.g

Sean Morrison - 2011-03-08

Indeed, a useful suggestion. Thanks!

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Akshay Kashyap - 2013-01-14

I've written a piece of code for this.(Although I don't know if it's an acceptable solution) It works, but I've tested it only on Linux.

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