CLI: support ~ as a valid direcoty

[tzach]

Linux users are used to use ~ as to represent home directory
It will be useful to have the same semantic on OSv CLI, where ~ is the root dir.

[nyh]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Tzach Livyatan [email protected]:

Linux users are used to use ~ as to represent home directory
It will be useful to have the same semantic on OSv CLI, where ~ is the
root dir.

Tzach, why would anyone prefer to type ~/dir instead of /dir ? :-)

Nadav Har'El
[email protected]

[tzach]

I know I do it, out of habit.
It might be misleading, because there are no users, and / is not my home.
If anyone else want to see ~, +1 in the comments

[lightpriest]

If I'm not wrong, tilde is part of the general shell expansion. Currently we have no expansion at all, if we're at it, it might be better to add full, or at least, most of the expansion characters (, *, ?), etc.

That being said, expansion usually serves scripting (or "command-line scripting"), but we don't really have that.