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problem with tilde in .launch file in kinetic ros

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asked 2019-02-20 04:51:29 -0500

arminkazim7
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updated 2019-02-20 06:15:11 -0500

Hello it seems like when i give an argument inside a .launch file and it contains a tilde character this character is not recognized properly and does not get converted to /home/username/.

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answered 2019-02-20 05:51:36 -0500

gvdhoorn
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a tilde character this character is not recognized properly and does not get converted to /home/username/.

the problem is that you're assuming this is a generic bit of functionality or behaviour ("in Linux"), but it's actually bash that substitutes /home/username for things like ~ and $HOME.

roslaunch does not do this, or at least not in the way you're currently using it.

You could consider using the env substitution arg for this specific case (with $HOME).

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Thanks a lot for your answer i got that point. So here is the solution <env name="HOME" value="/home/username"/> <...args="$(env HOME)..." />

arminkazim7 ( 2019-02-20 06:00:10 -0500 )edit

It should not be necessary to set HOME yourself.

In fact, from the documentation on env:

NOTE: Values set using the <env> tag will not be seen by $(env ...)

gvdhoorn ( 2019-02-20 06:13:36 -0500 )edit

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