symlinks in bash script aren't working

Question

I'm writing a bash script on Mac OS X that makes a symlink but when I try and open the symlink that I created it doesn't go anywhere and I get an error that it can't find the original.

OriginalPath="~/PathTo/bundle1.bundle"
NewPath="/OtherPath/bundle1.bundle"
sudo ln -s $OriginalPath $NewPath

I've also tried this:

sudo ln -s ${OriginalPath} ${NewPath}

Answer 1

ln sets the redirect to exactly what you give it, so it'll be interpreted relative to the location of the link. I'm actually not 100% sure how links will handle a ~, but I don't believe bash will expand it within quotes, and since it is a bash expansion, not a general filesystem one, I suspect the redirect will point to an actual directory named ~, which probably doesn't exist. Either figure out the relative path or expand it into an absolute path.