[Netkit.users] shell-style expansion of paths in lab.conf

[Ashish Agarwal]

We discovered that the following works without using the patch:

    pc1[model-fs]=/./$HOME/mystuff/my-modified-netkit-fs

The /. is required for some reason, but not for the kernel's path. The
following is okay:

    pc1[kernel]=$HOME/mystuff/my-modified-kernel



On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Massimo Rimondini <rimondin at dia.uniroma3.it
> wrote:

>  Dear Ashish,
>
> there is no way to apply shell expansion to the contents of lab.conf using
> standard Netkit tools, but you can by applying the attached patch to your
> $NETKIT_HOME/bin/lcommon.
>
> Please notice that, due to the way the shell performs expansion, the tilde
> will still fail to be correctedly interpreted when used in conjunction with
> long command-line options. Therefore, in order to obtain what you need, you
> would use instead:
>
> pc1[m]=~/mystuff/my-modified-netkit-fs
>
>
>
> or:
>
> pc1[model-fs]=$HOME/mystuff/my-modified-netkit-fs
>
>
> Regards,
> Massimo.
>
>
> On 06/10/2010 08:49 PM, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
>
> I'd like to include the following line in a lab.conf file:
>
>  pc1[model-fs]=~/mystuff/my-modified-netkit-fs
>
>  However, it appears that Netkit does not expand the tilde. The above line
> works fine if I instead write the fully expanded path. Is there anyway to
> get the above to work?
>
>  Thank you.
>
>
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