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# expand-tilde [![NPM version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/expand-tilde.svg?style=flat)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/expand-tilde) [![NPM downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/expand-tilde.svg?style=flat)](https://npmjs.org/package/expand-tilde) [![Linux Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde.svg?style=flat&label=Travis)](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._