thought it was a simple geometry problem....
The ~ symbol is expanded by the shell (e.g. /usr/bin/bash) into your home
directory path. OpenSCAD is not the shell and doesn't perform any
expansion. I would say that most programs do NOT treat ~ in any special
way. OpenSCAD would also fail to do use</home/jay//ID1032//IEC-V1.scad>
though it's likely it would work at the shell with ls for the same reason.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:55 AM jay@jdnd.co.uk wrote:
ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS my full root path to file is this
/home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad
including this file as below, works fine
use</home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
but this fails
use<~/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
does anyone with any ubuntu knowledge know why openscad fails to account
for the ~ directive being the current users home directory
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As I have a fairly flat file structure for my projects I use a relative path ../ to get to my include or library files that avoids coding a full path and then relocating modules and having to recode everything
On 18 Dec 2022, at 15:35, Adrian Mariano avm4@cornell.edu wrote:
The ~ symbol is expanded by the shell (e.g. /usr/bin/bash) into your home directory path. OpenSCAD is not the shell and doesn't perform any expansion. I would say that most programs do NOT treat ~ in any special way. OpenSCAD would also fail to do use</home/jay//ID1032//IEC-V1.scad> though it's likely it would work at the shell with ls for the same reason.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:55 AM <jay@jdnd.co.uk mailto:jay@jdnd.co.uk> wrote:
ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS my full root path to file is this
/home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad
including this file as below, works fine
use</home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
but this fails
use<~/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
does anyone with any ubuntu knowledge know why openscad fails to account for the ~ directive being the current users home directory
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For library files you should use the OpenSCAD library path mechanism and
then no path is needed at all.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:40 AM Bob Carter caggius@gmail.com wrote:
As I have a fairly flat file structure for my projects I use a relative
path ../ to get to my include or library files that avoids coding a full
path and then relocating modules and having to recode everything
On 18 Dec 2022, at 15:35, Adrian Mariano avm4@cornell.edu wrote:
The ~ symbol is expanded by the shell (e.g. /usr/bin/bash) into your home
directory path. OpenSCAD is not the shell and doesn't perform any
expansion. I would say that most programs do NOT treat ~ in any special
way. OpenSCAD would also fail to do use</home/jay//ID1032//IEC-V1.scad>
though it's likely it would work at the shell with ls for the same reason.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:55 AM jay@jdnd.co.uk wrote:
ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS my full root path to file is this
/home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad
including this file as below, works fine
use</home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
but this fails
use<~/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
does anyone with any ubuntu knowledge know why openscad fails to account
for the ~ directive being the current users home directory
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What is a "onpenscad library path mecanisum" ?Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Adrian Mariano avm4@cornell.edu Date: 12/18/22 3:43 PM (GMT+00:00) To: OpenSCAD general discussion Mailing-list discuss@lists.openscad.org Subject: [OpenSCAD] Re: use<> directive with full path to file, Ubuntu For library files you should use the OpenSCAD library path mechanism and then no path is needed at all. On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:40 AM Bob Carter caggius@gmail.com wrote:As I have a fairly flat file structure for my projects I use a relative path ../ to get to my include or library files that avoids coding a full path and then relocating modules and having to recode everythingOn 18 Dec 2022, at 15:35, Adrian Mariano avm4@cornell.edu wrote:The ~ symbol is expanded by the shell (e.g. /usr/bin/bash) into your home directory path. OpenSCAD is not the shell and doesn't perform any expansion. I would say that most programs do NOT treat ~ in any special way. OpenSCAD would also fail to do use</home/jay//ID1032//IEC-V1.scad> though it's likely it would work at the shell with ls for the same reason. On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:55 AM jay@jdnd.co.uk wrote:ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS my full root path to file is this/home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scadincluding this file as below, works fineuse</home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>but this failsuse<~/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>does anyone with any ubuntu knowledge know why openscad fails to account for the ~ directive being the current users home directory
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Will do, everething i have is in ~/IDs/IDxxxx/Rx/ so it won't be hard to use relative paths, just droping down 2 levelsSent via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Bob Carter caggius@gmail.com Date: 12/18/22 3:41 PM (GMT+00:00) To: OpenSCAD general discussion Mailing-list discuss@lists.openscad.org Subject: [OpenSCAD] Re: use<> directive with full path to file, Ubuntu As I have a fairly flat file structure for my projects I use a relative path ../ to get to my include or library files that avoids coding a full path and then relocating modules and having to recode everythingOn 18 Dec 2022, at 15:35, Adrian Mariano avm4@cornell.edu wrote:The ~ symbol is expanded by the shell (e.g. /usr/bin/bash) into your home directory path. OpenSCAD is not the shell and doesn't perform any expansion. I would say that most programs do NOT treat ~ in any special way. OpenSCAD would also fail to do use</home/jay//ID1032//IEC-V1.scad> though it's likely it would work at the shell with ls for the same reason. On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:55 AM jay@jdnd.co.uk wrote:ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS my full root path to file is this/home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scadincluding this file as below, works fineuse</home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>but this failsuse<~/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>does anyone with any ubuntu knowledge know why openscad fails to account for the ~ directive being the current users home directory
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On 18 Dec 2022, at 15:51, jay jay@jdnd.co.uk wrote:
What is a "onpenscad library path mecanisum" ?
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From: Adrian Mariano avm4@cornell.edu
Date: 12/18/22 3:43 PM (GMT+00:00)
To: OpenSCAD general discussion Mailing-list discuss@lists.openscad.org
Subject: [OpenSCAD] Re: use<> directive with full path to file, Ubuntu
For library files you should use the OpenSCAD library path mechanism and then no path is needed at all.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:40 AM Bob Carter <caggius@gmail.com mailto:caggius@gmail.com> wrote:
As I have a fairly flat file structure for my projects I use a relative path ../ to get to my include or library files that avoids coding a full path and then relocating modules and having to recode everything
On 18 Dec 2022, at 15:35, Adrian Mariano <avm4@cornell.edu mailto:avm4@cornell.edu> wrote:
The ~ symbol is expanded by the shell (e.g. /usr/bin/bash) into your home directory path. OpenSCAD is not the shell and doesn't perform any expansion. I would say that most programs do NOT treat ~ in any special way. OpenSCAD would also fail to do use</home/jay//ID1032//IEC-V1.scad> though it's likely it would work at the shell with ls for the same reason.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:55 AM <jay@jdnd.co.uk mailto:jay@jdnd.co.uk> wrote:
ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS my full root path to file is this
/home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad
including this file as below, works fine
use</home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
but this fails
use<~/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
does anyone with any ubuntu knowledge know why openscad fails to account for the ~ directive being the current users home directory
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usually it's the shell that expands the ~ and other environment
variables, is it not?
On 12/18/22 06:55, jay@jdnd.co.uk wrote:
ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS my full root path to file is this
/home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad
including this file as below, works fine
use</home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
but this fails
use<~/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
does anyone with any ubuntu knowledge know why openscad fails to
account for the ~ directive being the current users home directory
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Yes I don't think you can use ~ inside any programs on Linux. And it has no
meaning at all on Windows. It is just a Linux shell symbol.
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 at 16:27, William Martin wwm@cox.net wrote:
usually it's the shell that expands the ~ and other environment variables,
is it not?
On 12/18/22 06:55, jay@jdnd.co.uk wrote:
ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS my full root path to file is this
/home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad
including this file as below, works fine
use</home/jay/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
but this fails
use<~/IDs/ID1032/R1/IEC-V1.scad>
does anyone with any ubuntu knowledge know why openscad fails to account
for the ~ directive being the current users home directory
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On 12/18/22 10:27, Torsten Paul wrote:
On 18.12.22 15:55, jay@jdnd.co.uk wrote:
does anyone with any ubuntu knowledge know why openscad fails
to account for the ~ directive being the current users home
directory
There's simply no support for handling "~" in any special way
currently.
Shouldn't that be a shell function, of whatever shell ran OpenSCAD?
Pretty basic stuff. long term, dates back to the unix on an AT&T 3b2 in
the later '80's IIRC. I don't recall that much about it, other than we
stored 2 fire extinguishers in the same room with it, used them both.
Any cooling fan failure started a small fire.
ciao,
Torsten.
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On 18.12.22 17:29, nop head wrote:
Yes I don't think you can use ~ inside any programs on Linux. And it
has no meaning at all on Windows. It is just a Linux shell symbol.
Yep, it would be possible to define something, like use the normal
shell behavior on Linux/macOS and CSIDL_PERSONAL or CSIDL_PROFILE
on Windows.
But it might be better to rely only on the already existing lookup
via OPENSCADPATH as was suggested earlier.
ciao,
Torsten.