the file provisioner doesn't support ~/foo

[failshell]

The file provisioner doesn't seem to understand the ~ path.

With the following config:

  provisioner "file" {
    source = "~/bar"
    destination = "~/bar"
  }

I get the folllowing error:

* stat ~/bar: no such file or directory
* 1 error(s) occurred:

I'm guessing something like 1339 is needed.

[phinze]

Thanks for the report - we'll get this looked at - shouldn't be too bad.

[arubis]

I've been working around this by specifying absolute paths (including in accompanying usage documentation), but would love to see this improvement!

[mitchellh]

We added this feature to remote-exec so it shouldn't be hard to do for file. Will do!

[ghost]

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