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Bug 33060

Summary:	Eclipse launcher doesn't honor ~
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Dirk Baeumer <dirk_baeumer>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Dirk Baeumer

2003-02-25 13:19:33 EST

RC 1 
 
Starting eclipse using the following command 
 
'/home/dbaeumer/drops/gtk/eclipse/eclipse' -data ~/devel/workspaces/tp1 
 
creates a directory ~ in my home directory instead of devel under my home 
directory.

Comment 1 Rafael Chaves

2003-02-25 17:36:34 EST

I believe "~" as a shortcut to $HOME is a shell feature (some other 
applications may support it as well). Where are you launching Eclipse from a 
KDE/Gnome shortcut, shell command-line (which one), the "Run..." menu...

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2003-02-25 17:39:14 EST

Tilde expansion is done by the unix shell.  Your example below works for me with
bash.  What shell are you using?  Is that the exact command line you used?  A
slightly different placement of the single quotes would create a directory
called ~, for example:


/home/dbaeumer/drops/gtk/eclipse/eclipse -data '~/devel/workspaces/tp1'

However, this is shell behaviour.  The shell doesn't expand tilde inside quoted
strings.

Comment 3 Dirk Baeumer

2003-02-26 14:33:13 EST

I started Eclipse from a KDE desktop short cut.

Comment 4 John Arthorne

2003-02-28 10:47:03 EST

Closing as duplicate.  

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33148 ***

Comment 5 John Arthorne

2004-06-09 14:02:44 EDT

*** Bug 66325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***