filesystem path starting with ~ doesn't work

[dense tundra]

as in the attached screenshot, the first path works fine, the second one doesn't (reversing it also breaks it, if both lack "~" it works just fine)

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[woven cipher]

I think it's because there is no such thing as ~ for home directory with std:: filesystem

[dense tundra]

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/path/path
example shows using one

[median vale]

That might be a feature of one's actual file system and not of std::filesystem

[dense tundra]

How do I check if it's a feature of my file system? "cd ~" works just fine

[median vale]

so what happens there is bash converts ~ into your home directory before sending the argument to cd

[dense tundra]

so it's bash doing the conversion? I always thought it's a special symbolic link

[median vale]

I compiled this basic program and this is the result when running it

#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    std::cout << argv[1];
}

$ ./a.out ~/temp/main.cpp
/home/{fullname}/temp/main.cpp

[dense tundra]

It works for me too

[dense tundra]

Yeah, did some more tests, I don't think it's possible to do it with "~", it always needs the full path