Thanks for suggesting the workaround. Would be nice if '~' is recognized as
the home directory.
On Monday, May 5, 2014 4:20:00 PM UTC-6, Matt Bauman wrote:
>
> The functionality is there, but it's not enabled by default:
>
> julia> readdir(expanduser("~"))
> 84-element Array{Union(UTF8String,ASCIIString),1}:
> ⋮
>
> See issue #1136 <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1136> for
> details on why this isn't enabled (yet). I'd like this, too.
>
> On Monday, May 5, 2014 5:38:02 PM UTC-4, dodonix wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to reference the user's home directory without specifying
>> an explicit path? For example, I would like the following to list the
>> contents of my home directory instead of the error message shown:
>>
>> julia> readdir("~")
>>> ERROR: Unable to read directory ~.
>>> in readdir at file.jl:172
>>
>>
>> This would be a convenient feature.
>>
>
