On 2013-02-14 23:48, Marko Mäkelä wrote: > Hi Gerd, > >> to be precise: >> I tested with ubuntu default shell. >> >> java -jar mkgmap.jar ~/xyz.osm.pbf works >> java -jar mkgmap.jar --bounds=~/bounds_20121118.zip xyz.osm >> gives file not found error for the bounds file > > That would probably be the Bourne again shell (bash), which is the > default interactive shell in Debian. It will expand ~ at the start of an > argument, but not in the middle. > > man 1 bash says: >> Tilde Expansion >> If a word begins with an unquoted tilde character (`~'), all of the >> characters preceding the first unquoted slash (or all characters, if >> there is no unquoted slash) are considered a tilde-prefix. > > Note the 'begins with'.
that's different. that part refers to tilde prefix being ~<username> - for example, ~rich would be my home directory, but ~user would be user's home directory. that's not bash specific - it is a unix-specific concept, and it is the current user's home directory. it would be really nice if it was also supported in scenarios like --bounds=~/user/bounds hmm, turns out wikipedia page on tilde even has a section on "computing" :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Directories_and_URLs > IMO the simplest solution would be to accept this syntax if it is not > accepted yet: > > java -jar mkgmap.jar --bounds ~/bounds_20121118.zip xyz.osm > > Then, the ~ would begin a word, and the shell would expand it. > > A workaround is to write > > java -jar mkgmap.jar --bounds="$HOME"/bounds_20121118.zip xyz.osm > > (I usually use "" around variables in shell scripts, in case the > variable value contains $IFS characters, such as spaces. I guess that > defining HOME='/home/j. random user' could break some badly written > scripts.) > > Marko -- Rich _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://lists.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
