Quick Pro Tip:
Apparently on Windows, the "~" to refer to the home directory doesn't work
correctly. And it doesn't throw any sort of error to let you know that it
doesn't work correctly so it will simply silently fail. Here's a bit of
code I just hacked together to work around this issue (FWIW):
home_dir =
case (:os.type()) do
{:win32,_} -> System.get_env("UserProfile")
{:unix,_} -> "~"
end
You can see the issue in this way:
1.) Fire up iex
2.) iex(1)> File.mkdir_p!("~/bogus")
:ok
3.) PS C:\Users\ocatenacci> dir b*
Directory: C:\Users\ocatenacci
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 7/16/2015 3:14 PM Babou
-a---- 11/20/2015 3:39 PM 7606 boot.bat
4.) iex(2)> home = System.get_env("UserProfile")
"C:\\Users\\ocatenacci"
iex(3)> File.mkdir_p!("#{home}/bogus")
:ok
5.) PS C:\Users\ocatenacci> dir b*
Directory: C:\Users\ocatenacci
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 7/16/2015 3:14 PM Babou
d----- 5/6/2016 12:12 PM bogus
-a---- 11/20/2015 3:39 PM 7606 boot.bat
I hadn't actually checked this on Unix but I'd be shocked were it a
problem. The only real annoyance to this is that no error is thrown--the
directory simply isn't created.
I can file an issue if it's wanted. Just wanted to make sure those few of
us who use windows are aware of the issue.
--
Onorio
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"elixir-lang-core" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/6e72e631-aee1-40d7-bc9c-2d083bea9b84%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
