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| # expand-tilde [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/expand-tilde) [](https://npmjs.org/package/expand-tilde) [](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde)
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| > Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. Expands a leading tilde in a file path to the user home directory, or `~+` to the cwd.
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| 
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| ## Install
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| Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):
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| ```sh
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| $ npm install --save expand-tilde
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| ```
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| 
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| ## Usage
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| See the [Bash documentation for Tilde Expansion](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html).
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| 
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| ```js
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| var expandTilde = require('expand-tilde');
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| expandTilde('~')
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| //=> '/Users/jonschlinkert'
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| expandTilde('~+')
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| //=> process.cwd()
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| ```
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| 
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| ## Run tests
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| 
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| Install dev dependencies:
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| 
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| ```bash
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| npm i -d && npm test
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| ```
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| 
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| ## About
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| ### Related projects
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| 
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| * [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.")
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| * [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.")
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| * [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")
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| * [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.")
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| 
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| ### Contributing
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| Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).
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| 
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| ### Building docs
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| _(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).)_
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| To generate the readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb):
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| 
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| ```sh
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| $ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb
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| ```
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| 
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| ### Running tests
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| 
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| Install dev dependencies:
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| 
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| ```sh
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| $ npm install -d && npm test
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| ```
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| 
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| ### Author
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| 
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| **Jon Schlinkert**
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| * [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert)
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| * [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert)
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| 
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| ### License
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| Copyright © 2016, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert).
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| Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).
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| 
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| ***
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| 
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| _This file was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), v0.2.0, on December 08, 2016._ |