From 1f452527e58f4078c15cefb88bbbe9061e48f1ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bastian Kleineidam <bastian.kleineidam@web.de>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:16:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Expand user in basepath

---
 doc/changelog.txt | 7 +++++++
 dosage            | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/changelog.txt b/doc/changelog.txt
index 7e3421e36..f40526a37 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.txt
+++ b/doc/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Dosage 2.12 (released xx.xx.2014)
+
+Changes:
+- cmdline: The --basepath option now replaces "~" or "~user" with the
+  users home directory.
+
+
 Dosage 2.11 (released 15.1.2014)
 
 Features:
diff --git a/dosage b/dosage
index 17e110d8e..6c3a6ef9c 100755
--- a/dosage
+++ b/dosage
@@ -482,8 +482,9 @@ def warn_adult(scraperclass):
 def main():
     """Parse options and execute commands."""
     try:
-        parser = setupOptions()
-        res = run(parser.parse_args())
+        options = setupOptions().parse_args()
+        options.basepath = os.path.expanduser(options.basepath)
+        res = run(options)
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         print("Aborted.")
         res = 1