From 0b0ca9573185c10849ca9b820637b217303821d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael DeHaan <michael@ansibleworks.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:10:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Expand environment variables and tildes passed to commands
 generically across the board.

---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
index 6e47dd4560d..8bdfb0b976e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
@@ -1018,6 +1018,9 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
             msg = "Argument 'args' to run_command must be list or string"
             self.fail_json(rc=257, cmd=args, msg=msg)
 
+        # expand things like $HOME and ~
+        args = [ os.path.expandvars(os.path.expanduser(x)) for x in args ]
+
         rc = 0
         msg = None
         st_in = None