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  • Subject: Re: Plist
  • From: James Bucanek <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:26:36 -0700

Motti Saroka <mailto:email@hidden> wrote (Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:56 PM +0200):

Hi,

I have a problem, I need to load a Plist file that contain a "WatchPaths"
tag which should point to user home directory, this Plist file should be
generic and should match to different users, the problem is that I don't
know the username before I am loading the Plist by launchctl, ideally is to
use the tag "$HOME" or "~" whoch point to the user home directory from
command line but MacOSX don't recognize these tags, what alternative way I
should use in order to use the "WatchPaths" and point to a local user home
directory.

This really isn't a filesystem question. You'd be better off posting this to the Cocoa-dev list, if this doesn't answer your question.


The function you're probably looking for is -[NSString stringByExpandingTildeInPath].

Very few file manager function in Cocoa recognize the ~ in a path as a shortcut to the current user's home directory. You can resolve this simply by first sending the string the -stringByExpandingTildeInPath message. The returned string will be an absolute file system path with ~ replaced with the appropriate home directory path, which you can then pass to any file system method.

Here's an example

NSString* path = @"~/myfile.plist";
NSFileManager* fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

if ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath:[path stringByExpandingTildeInPath]])
    ...



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James Bucanek

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