File Content: README.md # expand-tilde [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/expand-tilde) [](https://npmjs.org/package/expand-tilde) [](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde) > Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. Expands a leading tilde in a file path to the user home directory, or `~+` to the cwd. ## Install Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/): ```sh $ npm install --save expand-tilde ``` ## Usage See the [Bash documentation for Tilde Expansion](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html). ```js var expandTilde = require('expand-tilde'); expandTilde('~') //=> '/Users/jonschlinkert' expandTilde('~+') //=> process.cwd() ``` ## Run tests Install dev dependencies: ```bash npm i -d && npm test ``` ## About ### Related projects * [braces](https://www.npmjs.com/package/braces): Fast, comprehensive, bash-like brace expansion implemented in JavaScript. Complete support for the Bash 4.3 braces… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/braces) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/braces "Fast, comprehensive, bash-like brace expansion implemented in JavaScript. Complete support for the Bash 4.3 braces specification, without sacrificing speed.") * [expand-brackets](https://www.npmjs.com/package/expand-brackets): Expand POSIX bracket expressions (character classes) in glob patterns. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-brackets "Expand POSIX bracket expressions (character classes) in glob patterns.") * [is-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob "Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern. This makes it easy to create code that only uses external modules like node-glob when necessary, resulting in much faster code execution and initialization time, and a bet") * [micromatch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/micromatch): Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/micromatch "Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch.") ### Contributing Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new). ### Building docs _(This document was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme) (a [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb) generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in [.verb.md](.verb.md).)_ To generate the readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb): ```sh $ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb ``` ### Running tests Install dev dependencies: ```sh $ npm install -d && npm test ``` ### Author **Jon Schlinkert** * [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) * [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ### License Copyright © 2016, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert). Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE). *** _This file was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), v0.2.0, on December 08, 2016._ Submit