Is tilde accepted in Bash script for macOS? (Trying to get a user's documents folder path.)

Asked Jul 02 '23 at 13:21

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I'm trying to write a Bash script for macOS to create a directory in a user's documents folder. I do this:

dmg_dir="~/Documents/My dir"

# Create a directory
$(mkdir -p "$dmg_dir")

But it fails as the interpreter seems not to unfold the tilde in the path.

What am I doing wrong?

asked Jul 02 '23 at 13:21

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Take the tilde out of the quotes – Charles Duffy Jul 02 '23 at 13:49
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And don't use `$( )` unnecessarily. – Charles Duffy Jul 02 '23 at 13:50
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Quotes in shell are handled in a character by character basis; one of the many correct ways to write your code would be `dmg_dir=~/Documents/"My dir"`, so the space is inside the quotes but the tilde is not. – Charles Duffy Jul 02 '23 at 13:52

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