On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 2:15 PM Eric Blake wrote: > If you want tilde-expansion to happen, you have to use a shell that does > tilde-expansion. bash and dash do, PowerShell does not. It is not > cygpath's fault, but your choice of shell, that determines whether ~ is > expanded. And, since the tilde-expansion of ~ is $HOME, and PowerShell > _does_ support $HOME, use $HOME instead of relying on tilde-expansion. > (The expansion of ~user is a much harder nut to crack - for that, you > really do depend on a shell doing proper tilde-expansion, as there are > no easy shortcuts)
The only problem with that is that PowerShell $HOME is not always equivalent to Cygwin ~ . For example, if the Windows user has a home drive and directory specified in the profile, Cygwin ~ will point there rather than PowerShell $HOME (which points at the user's profile directory). I can make do with /bin/dash -c 'cygpath -aw ~' - from the Windows side, but this makes me spawn two executables and seems like unnecessary overhead. Seems like there must be a better way... Bill -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
