Probably obvious but just in case I'll mention that you can also use $HOME instead of ~.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 2:43 PM Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 1:43 PM John Chludzinski < > john.chludzin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I tried to use ~ in a path and got this: >> >> sudo dd if=~/Downloads/SSS/sss_image-20180817.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1048576 >> >> dd: failed to open '~/Downloads/SSS/sss_image-20180817.img': No such >> file or directory >> > > That is the expected behavior. From the documentation: > > Home directory expansion >> The ~ (tilde) character at the beginning of a parameter, followed by a >> username, is expanded into the home directory of the specified user. A lone >> ~, or a ~followed by a slash, is expanded into the home directory of the >> process owner. > > > This is also how it works in shells like ksh and bash. The shell has no > way of knowing that the string following "if=" is a path. You can use a var > to do it: > > set x ~/Downloads/... > sudo dd if=$x ... > > -- > Kurtis Rader > Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank > _______________________________________________ > Fish-users mailing list > Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users >
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