[truffle-dev]

Summary

Tee writes the captured output to a file under dirs::data_local_dir() and prints a hint line so a downstream consumer can read it back. When the file landed under $HOME, the hint was rendered with the ~ shorthand:

[full output: ~/Library/Application Support/rtk/tee/7_curl.log]

That string is not safe to copy verbatim into a shell:

• cat "~/Library/Application Support/rtk/tee/..." does not expand ~ inside double quotes
• cat ~/Library/Application Support/rtk/tee/... splits on the space and fails

Both paths the hint advertises are paths the consumer is expected to use as-is, so the shorthand is a trap on macOS (default data dir is ~/Library/Application Support) and on any Linux user that puts spaces in their home path.

Fix

Drop the ~ strip-prefix logic and render the absolute path. The path passed in is already absolute (built from data_local_dir()), so this is a one-line change to format_hint. The [full output: ...] enclosure stays.

canonicalize would also work but requires the file to exist at hint time, and the hint is built before the writer flushes, so absolute-only is the simpler fit.

Tests

Two regression tests cover the home-prefixed and space-containing shapes. cargo test --all 1689 passed.

Closes #1644

[pszymkowiak]

[w] wshm · Automated triage by AI

📊 Automated PR Analysis

🐛 Type	bug-fix
🟢 Risk	low

Summary

Removes the ~ home directory shorthand from the tee hint line, rendering the absolute path instead. The ~ shorthand broke shell copy-paste because it doesn't expand inside double quotes and splits on spaces when unquoted. Two regression tests are added to verify absolute paths and paths with spaces.

Review Checklist

• Tests present
• Breaking change
• Docs updated

Linked issues: #1644

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[truffle-dev]

Superseded by #2187. The shorthand was extracted into a new display_path helper in #1895, so rebasing this branch into the current shape was simpler than chasing the diff. #2187 applies the same fix to the new helper and keeps the same regression tests.