More on tilde expansion

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Mon Sep 13 14:07:57 UTC 2004


Hi,

Getting slightly frustrated that this seemingly simple issue turns out
to be so hard to solve.

I did verify that tilde_expand() returns correct values. Still for some
reason the following patch (only affects copy of a single
file/directory) does not work correctly for files/directories that do
not contain a slash in the name. Ie ~/[path] and ~leonard/[path] work
correctly, but not ~ and ~leonard. It is just as if tilde_expand is not
called in such cases. I am totally clueless. Anyone care to shed some
light?

--- src/file.c.000	2004-09-10 15:06:59.000000000 +0200
+++ src/file.c	2004-09-10 17:32:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -1865,6 +1865,9 @@ panel_operate (void *source_panel, FileO
 	    g_free (dest);
 	    return 0;
 	}
+	char *tmpdest = dest;
+	dest = tilde_expand(tmpdest);
+	g_free(tmpdest);
     }
 #ifdef WITH_BACKGROUND
     /* Did the user select to do a background operation? */

Leonard.

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