Re: [Bug-wget] Tilde expansion not carried out in file_cmd

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Darshit Shah <address@hidden> writes:

> When wget is passed a filename as a commandline parameter, tilde expansion
> is not carried out on it, though the function cmd_file clearly states that
> this should happen.

Tilde expansion happens in the parser before cmd_file is invoked,
similar to how the shells do it.  See the function
setval_internal_tilde.

It would be wrong to do the expansion in cmd_file because then it would
be expanded even for command-line options, where its the shell's job to
do that.  In fact, that would prevent you from accessing a directory
named "~" using Wget's command line.