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Diffstat (limited to 'libs/ardour/utils.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | libs/ardour/utils.cc | 35 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libs/ardour/utils.cc b/libs/ardour/utils.cc index 003e1c92a3..a5b0b4f2ce 100644 --- a/libs/ardour/utils.cc +++ b/libs/ardour/utils.cc @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> +#ifdef HAVE_WORDEXP +#include <wordexp.h> +#endif + #include <pbd/error.h> #include <pbd/xml++.h> #include <ardour/utils.h> @@ -222,3 +226,34 @@ region_name_from_path (string path) return path; } + +string +path_expand (string path) +{ +#ifdef HAVE_WORDEXP + /* Handle tilde and environment variable expansion in session path */ + string ret = path; + + wordexp_t expansion; + switch (wordexp (path.c_str(), &expansion, WRDE_NOCMD|WRDE_UNDEF)) { + case 0: + break; + default: + error << string_compose (_("illegal or badly-formed string used for path (%1)"), path) << endmsg; + goto out; + } + + if (expansion.we_wordc > 1) { + error << string_compose (_("path (%1) is ambiguous"), path) << endmsg; + goto out; + } + + ret = expansion.we_wordv[0]; + out: + wordfree (&expansion); + return ret; + +#else + return path; +#endif +} |