[chef] Re: Use template or cookbook_file resources to put something in a user's home directory?

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Stephen Corbesero
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> Is there any way to use the template and cookbook_file resources to put
> files in or under a user’s home directory without hardcoding the directory
> as “/home/username”?
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> Is there some way to get the chef-client to interpret ~username like the
> shell does?

I think File.expand_path should do it?

irb(main):002:0> File.expand_path('~juliandunn')
=> "/Users/juliandunn"

- Julian

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