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tilde_home.go
if strings.HasPrefix(path, "~/") {
path = filepath.Join(dir, path[2:])
}
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soniah commented Jul 17, 2018 •
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Try https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir. It's Mitchell Hashimoto's code, so it'll be good ;-)

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sebble commented Nov 6, 2021

Since go 1.12

if strings.HasPrefix(path, "~/") {
    dirname, _ := os.UserHomeDir()
    path = filepath.Join(dirname, path[2:])	
}

Found on https://stackoverflow.com/a/13004756

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