[cs615asa] Expanding ~

[Paul-Anthony Dudzinski]

Sorry my python is a bit rusty... But it looks like you are expanding to
the absolute path if given the relative? This adds another layer of parsing
on top of the code and seems outside of spec, but that does make it more
fault proof.


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Kun Yao <kyao at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Hi, I'm using python, and using this function to convert into abs path, it
> works fine for me.
>
> def full_path(dir_):
>
>     if dir_[0] == '~' and not os.path.exists(dir_):
>
>         dir_ = os.path.expanduser(dir_)
>
>     return os.path.abspath(dir_)
>
> Kun
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Jin Sun <jsun6 at stevens.edu> wrote:
>
>> Sorry can't
>> On Mar 31, 2014 11:52 AM, "Jin Sun" <jsun6 at stevens.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> i get the same result, I think is because you can use ~ in shell script.
>>> This will not be explained.
>>> On Mar 31, 2014 11:41 AM, "Jin Sun" <jsun6 at stevens.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> dont use ~
>>>> On Mar 31, 2014 11:40 AM, "Paul-Anthony Dudzinski" <
>>>> pdudzins at stevens.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> I am running into a bit of trouble when I try to override the ssh
>>>>> flags in my program when I pass ~ for the home directory:
>>>>>
>>>>> So if I do
>>>>>
>>>>> export EC2_BACKUP_FLAGS_SSH="-i ~/.aws/lnxLab.pem"
>>>>>
>>>>> and then run the program I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> Warning: Identity file ~/.aws/lnxLab.pem not accessible: No such file
>>>>> or directory. Warning:  Permanently added '
>>>>> ec2-54-85-193-109.compute-1.amazonaws.com,54.85.193.109' (ECDSA) to
>>>>> the   Permission denied (publickey).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> However when I pass the absolute path it works just fine. My intuition
>>>>> is that ssh might be looking in /etc/passwd for my home directory (where I
>>>>> have no entry on lnxlab) and then looking for the literal file :
>>>>> ~/.aws/lnxLab.pem when it doesnt find a home directory for my user id.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is anyone else having this problem?
>>>>>
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