alt Hacker NewsI never use tilde in scripts, only as a convenience when typing commands interactively.
$HOME otherwise, which still has gotchas but they are the same as any other environment variable.
I never use tilde in scripts, only as a convenience when typing commands interactively.
$HOME otherwise, which still has gotchas but they are the same as any other environment variable.
Yeah, in scripts I try to be as explicit as possible. `$HOME` for the home directory, `$XDG_DATA_HOME` for `/home/foo/.local/share/`, etc.
The more specific you are, the less gotchas you're going to fall to.