juju config does not expand '~' when using the '@' shortut

[Thomi Richards]

When setting config options where the config data comes from a file, the '@' shortcut makes things really easy:

$ juju config my-application option_name=@some_file

However, it doesn't expand '~' to the users home directory, which can be a little confusing:

$ juju config external-services cassandra_clusters=@~/jc
ERROR cannot read option from file "~/jc": stat /home/thomi/code/canonical/charms/external-services/~/jc: no such file or directory

...and yet the file exists:

$ ls ~/jc
/home/thomi/jc

...and expanding the path manually works just fine:

$ juju config external-services cassandra_clusters=@/home/thomi/jc

[Witold Krecicki (wpk)]

https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/7545

[Canonical Juju QA Bot (juju-qa-bot)]

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