How to expand Windows Shell Shortcuts like %LocalAppData%?

[ni554n]

Additional context and details

~> nvim "%LocalAppData%\nvim\init.lua"                                                            1 02/10/24 02:44:03 AM
Error:   × Invalid literal
   ╭─[entry #6:1:1]
 1 │ nvim "%LocalAppData%\nvim\init.lua"
   ·                           ────┬────
   ·                               ╰── unrecognized escape after '\' in string
   ╰────

[maxomatic458]

@ni554n you can do $env.LOCALAPPDATA
but im not sure how you would expand this to a path
$env.LOCALAPPDATA\some\path does not seem to work

[fdncred]

The nushell equivalent is to use string interpolation.

 nvim $"($env.LOCALAPPDATA)/nvim/init.lua"

Here's another way

nvim ([$env.LOCALAPPDATA nvim init.lua] | path join)

There are probably more ways too.

[maxomatic458]

thats pretty confusing for such a basic thing in my opinion.
I think something like this $env.LOCALAPPDATA\some\path should also work.