Hi,
Jesper Nygårds wrote:
>
> Say I have a string containing a directory name. I know I can use the :a
> modifier to turn the string into the absolute path, but this does not seem
> to work with named directories, and if I read the documentation correctly,
> it's not supposed to. I wonder how I can go about resolving the string if
> it is a named directory.
>
> Here's an example of what I mean:
> % pwd
> /c/Program/Java
> % ls
> jdk16 jdk17 jre6 jre7
> % mydir="jre6"
> % print ${mydir:a}
> /c/Program/Java/jre6 # Expexted
> % pr=~/projects
> % mydir="~pr"
> % print ${mydir:a}
> /c/Program/Java/~pr # What I wanted was "/home/jesper/projects"
>
> So, in the above example, is there a way to make $mydir resolve to the
> absolute path of the named directory ~pr, without using an external program?
I expect what you want is not
% pr=~/projects
% mydir="~pr"
but
% pr=~/projects
% mydir="$pr"
instead. Or you might want
% mydir=~/projects
% print ${mydir:a}
Ciao,
Thomas
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