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...use the linux expand function?
Autor: Gerard Knight
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// example of using the linux wordexp function
// see: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/wordexp.html

// I use it to expand file paths that use the ~/ character instead of /home/<current user>/

function SystemExpandFilePath(aFilePath: string): string;
  {$IFDEF LINUX}
var 
  
awordexp_t: wordexp_t;
  {$ENDIF}
begin
  
Result := aFilePath;
  {$IFDEF LINUX}
  {
    Expand the path, i.e. in linux ~ = user home
  }
  
if LibC.wordexp(PChar(aFilePath), awordexp_t, 0) = 0 then
    
Result := PChar(awordexp_t.we_wordv^);
  {$ENDIF}
end;



 

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