// Mgmt // Copyright (C) 2013-2018+ James Shubin and the project contributors // Written by James Shubin and the project contributors // // This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License // along with this program. If not, see . package util import ( "fmt" "os/user" "path" "regexp" "strings" errwrap "github.com/pkg/errors" ) // ExpandHome does an expansion of ~/ or ~james/ into user's home dir value. func ExpandHome(p string) (string, error) { if strings.HasPrefix(p, "~/") { usr, err := user.Current() if err != nil { return p, fmt.Errorf("can't expand ~ into home directory") } return path.Join(usr.HomeDir, p[len("~/"):]), nil } // check if provided path is in format ~username and keep track of provided username r, err := regexp.Compile("~([^/]+)/") if err != nil { return p, errwrap.Wrapf(err, "can't compile regexp") } if match := r.FindStringSubmatch(p); match != nil { username := match[len(match)-1] usr, err := user.Lookup(username) if err != nil { return p, fmt.Errorf("can't expand %s into home directory", match[0]) } return path.Join(usr.HomeDir, p[len(match[0]):]), nil } return p, nil }