[Help-bash] No tilde expansion in [[..]] when reading input with read

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi,

I'm trying to read in a directory name with read, later when I test it
with [[ -d $mydir ]] it fails if there is a tilde.  I'm guessing tilde
expansion is not happening in [[...]].  I have attached a test script
which demonstrates my issue.

  $ ./test.bash
  Enter directory: ~/
  ~/ does not exist

Can someone help me understand what is going wrong here?

Thanks a lot,

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Suvayu

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test.bash
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