Add support for tilde (~) expansion on windows

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   configuration fields) to truncate user and group names if they exceed a certain number
   of characters (disabled by default).
 - Add support for `--literal` from [PanGan21](https://github.com/PanGan21)
+- Add support for tilde (`~`) expansion on Windows from [Ofer Sadan](https://github.com/ofersadan85)
 
 ## [v1.0.0] - 2023-08-25
 

src/core.rs

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ use std::os::unix::io::AsRawFd;
 use crate::flags::blocks::Block;
 use crate::git_theme::GitTheme;
 #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+use crate::meta::windows_utils;
+#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
 use terminal_size::terminal_size;
 
 pub struct Core {
@@ -104,6 +106,9 @@ impl Core {
             _ => 1,
         };
 
+        #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+        let paths: Vec<PathBuf> = paths.into_iter().map(windows_utils::expand_home).collect();
+
         for path in paths {
             let mut meta =
                 match Meta::from_path(&path, self.flags.dereference.0, self.flags.permission) {

src/meta/windows_utils.rs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};
 use std::io;
 use std::mem::MaybeUninit;
 use std::os::windows::ffi::{OsStrExt, OsStringExt};
-use std::path::Path;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 
 use windows::Win32::Foundation::PSID;
 use windows::Win32::Security::{self, Authorization::TRUSTEE_W, ACL};
@@ -343,6 +343,18 @@ pub fn is_path_system(path: &Path) -> bool {
     )
 }
 
+/// Expands the `~` in a path to the current user's home directory
+pub fn expand_home(path: PathBuf) -> PathBuf {
+    if path.starts_with("~") {
+        if let Some(home) = dirs::home_dir() {
+            let mut expanded = home.to_path_buf();
+            expanded.push(path.strip_prefix("~").unwrap());
+            return expanded;
+        }
+    }
+    path
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
     use super::*;