From ac73822405eebaf50fb94195e4ea315ba5805463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:39:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Expand target for mysql_db

Fixes #8128
---
 library/database/mysql_db | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/library/database/mysql_db b/library/database/mysql_db
index 40af38108ff..184c30381c4 100644
--- a/library/database/mysql_db
+++ b/library/database/mysql_db
@@ -282,6 +282,9 @@ def main():
     state = module.params["state"]
     target = module.params["target"]
 
+    # make sure the target path is expanded for ~ and $HOME
+    target = os.path.expandvars(os.path.expanduser(target))
+
     # Either the caller passes both a username and password with which to connect to
     # mysql, or they pass neither and allow this module to read the credentials from
     # ~/.my.cnf.