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POSIX home directory symbol '~' is causing trouble [message #57620]

Mon, 11 October 2021 00:13

Lance
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Registered: March 2007

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#include <Core/Core.h>

using namespace Upp;

CONSOLE_APP_MAIN
{
	
	FileOut fo("~/abc.txt");
	fo<<"U++ rocks!";
}

The above code won't work on Ubuntu. No expection thrown either. It just quietly does nothging. But when I replace ~ with something like /home/user1, it works just fine.

I also notice this home directory symbol causing trouble in similar situation: I use it in LocalProcess and pass it a command that is known to not run, hence a exit code 1 is expected to be returned by the OS. Yet when I use ~ to denote home directory, the LocalProcess always return 0 exit code.

Is ~ a bash thing(means bash or similar shells interpret it to produce a conforming path) so that we really should not use it on U++?

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