added unit testing, and started implementing unit tests...phew

node_modules/expand-tilde/LICENSE

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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2015-2016, Jon Schlinkert.
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
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+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+THE SOFTWARE.

node_modules/expand-tilde/README.md

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+# expand-tilde [![NPM version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/expand-tilde.svg?style=flat)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/expand-tilde) [![NPM downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/expand-tilde.svg?style=flat)](https://npmjs.org/package/expand-tilde) [![Linux Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde.svg?style=flat&label=Travis)](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde)
+
+> Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. Expands a leading tilde in a file path to the user home directory, or `~+` to the cwd.
+
+## Install
+
+Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):
+
+```sh
+$ npm install --save expand-tilde
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+See the [Bash documentation for Tilde Expansion](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html).
+
+```js
+var expandTilde = require('expand-tilde');
+
+expandTilde('~')
+//=> '/Users/jonschlinkert'
+
+expandTilde('~+')
+//=> process.cwd()
+```
+
+## Run tests
+
+Install dev dependencies:
+
+```bash
+npm i -d && npm test
+```
+
+## About
+
+### Related projects
+
+* [braces](https://www.npmjs.com/package/braces): Fast, comprehensive, bash-like brace expansion implemented in JavaScript. Complete support for the Bash 4.3 braces… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/braces) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/braces "Fast, comprehensive, bash-like brace expansion implemented in JavaScript. Complete support for the Bash 4.3 braces specification, without sacrificing speed.")
+* [expand-brackets](https://www.npmjs.com/package/expand-brackets): Expand POSIX bracket expressions (character classes) in glob patterns. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-brackets "Expand POSIX bracket expressions (character classes) in glob patterns.")
+* [is-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob "Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern. This makes it easy to create code that only uses external modules like node-glob when necessary, resulting in much faster code execution and initialization time, and a bet")
+* [micromatch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/micromatch): Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/micromatch "Glob matching for javascript/node.js. A drop-in replacement and faster alternative to minimatch and multimatch.")
+
+### Contributing
+
+Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new).
+
+### Building docs
+
+_(This document was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme) (a [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb) generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in [.verb.md](.verb.md).)_
+
+To generate the readme and API documentation with [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb):
+
+```sh
+$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb
+```
+
+### Running tests
+
+Install dev dependencies:
+
+```sh
+$ npm install -d && npm test
+```
+
+### Author
+
+**Jon Schlinkert**
+
+* [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert)
+* [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert)
+
+### License
+
+Copyright © 2016, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert).
+Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).
+
+***
+
+_This file was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), v0.2.0, on December 08, 2016._

node_modules/expand-tilde/index.js

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+/*!
+ * expand-tilde <https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde>
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2015 Jon Schlinkert.
+ * Licensed under the MIT license.
+ */
+
+var homedir = require('homedir-polyfill');
+var path = require('path');
+
+module.exports = function expandTilde(filepath) {
+  var home = homedir();
+
+  if (filepath.charCodeAt(0) === 126 /* ~ */) {
+    if (filepath.charCodeAt(1) === 43 /* + */) {
+      return path.join(process.cwd(), filepath.slice(2));
+    }
+    return home ? path.join(home, filepath.slice(1)) : filepath;
+  }
+
+  return filepath;
+};

node_modules/expand-tilde/package.json

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+{
+  "_from": "expand-tilde@^2.0.0",
+  "_id": "expand-tilde@2.0.2",
+  "_inBundle": false,
+  "_integrity": "sha1-l+gBqgUt8CRU3kawK/YhZCzchQI=",
+  "_location": "/expand-tilde",
+  "_phantomChildren": {},
+  "_requested": {
+    "type": "range",
+    "registry": true,
+    "raw": "expand-tilde@^2.0.0",
+    "name": "expand-tilde",
+    "escapedName": "expand-tilde",
+    "rawSpec": "^2.0.0",
+    "saveSpec": null,
+    "fetchSpec": "^2.0.0"
+  },
+  "_requiredBy": [
+    "/global-prefix",
+    "/resolve-dir"
+  ],
+  "_resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/expand-tilde/-/expand-tilde-2.0.2.tgz",
+  "_shasum": "97e801aa052df02454de46b02bf621642cdc8502",
+  "_spec": "expand-tilde@^2.0.0",
+  "_where": "/Users/josh.burman/Projects/braid/node_modules/resolve-dir",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Jon Schlinkert",
+    "url": "https://github.com/jonschlinkert"
+  },
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde/issues"
+  },
+  "bundleDependencies": false,
+  "dependencies": {
+    "homedir-polyfill": "^1.0.1"
+  },
+  "deprecated": false,
+  "description": "Bash-like tilde expansion for node.js. Expands a leading tilde in a file path to the user home directory, or `~+` to the cwd.",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "gulp-format-md": "^0.1.9",
+    "is-windows": "^0.2.0",
+    "mocha": "^2.5.3"
+  },
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=0.10.0"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "index.js"
+  ],
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde",
+  "keywords": [
+    "cwd",
+    "expand",
+    "expansion",
+    "filepath",
+    "home",
+    "path",
+    "pwd",
+    "tilde",
+    "user",
+    "userhome"
+  ],
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "name": "expand-tilde",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-tilde.git"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "mocha"
+  },
+  "verb": {
+    "run": true,
+    "toc": false,
+    "layout": "default",
+    "tasks": [
+      "readme"
+    ],
+    "plugins": [
+      "gulp-format-md"
+    ],
+    "related": {
+      "list": [
+        "braces",
+        "expand-brackets",
+        "is-glob",
+        "micromatch"
+      ]
+    },
+    "reflinks": [
+      "verb"
+    ],
+    "lint": {
+      "reflinks": true
+    }
+  },
+  "version": "2.0.2"
+}