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bug #41826: Allow expansion of environment variables in .stowrc (feature request)

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Submitted:  Mon 10 Mar 2014 07:58:41 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Sun 08 May 2016 01:10:34 PM UTC, comment #2: 

This is also tracked at https://github.com/aspiers/stow/pull/13

 Adam Spiers <aspiers>
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Wed 19 Mar 2014 10:47:04 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the report.  It could be quite a while before I get around to implementing this myself, but I'd gladly consider pull requests against https://github.com/aspiers/stow

 Adam Spiers <aspiers>
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Mon 10 Mar 2014 07:58:41 PM UTC, original submission:  

To allow for portability of .stowrc files between different environments, it would be beneficial to expand environment variables in the configuration files. For example, if a user wants  to stow files in his home directory, he might use

--dir=$HOME/opt/stow
--target=$HOME/opt

instead of having to specify a unique prefix for each system. It may be a good idea to follow shell escape rules in this expansion. For example, the following would match the literal stow directory "$HOME/opt/stow":

--dir='$HOME/opt/stow'
--dir=\$HOME/opt/stow


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