# expand-tilde [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/expand-tilde) [](https://npmjs.org/package/expand-tilde) [](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde)
> Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. Expands a leading tilde in a file path to the user home directory, or `~+` to the cwd.
## Install
Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):
```sh
$ npm install --save expand-tilde
```
## Usage
See the [Bash documentation for Tilde Expansion](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html).
```js
var expandTilde = require('expand-tilde');
expandTilde('~')
//=> '/Users/jonschlinkert'
expandTilde('~+')
//=> process.cwd()
```
## Run tests
Install dev dependencies:
```bash
npm i -d && npm test
```
## About
### Related projects
* [braces](https://www.npmjs.com/package/braces): Fast, comprehensive, bash-like brace expansion implemented in JavaScript. Complete support for the Bash 4.3 braces… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/braces) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/braces "Fast, comprehensive, bash-like brace expansion implemented in JavaScript. Complete support for the Bash 4.3 braces specification, without sacrificing speed.")
* [expand-brackets](https://www.npmjs.com/package/expand-brackets): Expand POSIX bracket expressions (character classes) in glob patterns. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-brackets "Expand POSIX bracket expressions (character classes) in glob patterns.")
* [is-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob "Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern. This makes it easy to create code that only uses external modules like node-glob when necessary, resulting in much faster code execution and initialization time, and a bet")
* [micromatch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/micromatch): Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/micromatch "Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch.")
### Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).
### Building docs
_(This document was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme) (a [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb) generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in [.verb.md](.verb.md).)_
To generate the readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb):
```sh
$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb
```
### Running tests
Install dev dependencies:
```sh
$ npm install -d && npm test
```
### Author
**Jon Schlinkert**
* [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert)
* [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert)
### License
Copyright © 2016, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert).
Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).
***
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