Zsh Alias | Mac OS - No such file or directory but exists

Question

I'm trying to create an alias to activate any given Venv by typing activate [name of Venv].

What I've done:

activate (){
    directory = "~/Programming/path-to-venvs/$1"
    cd $directory
    source "bin/activate"
}

When I try to run it, if I do:

activate Test

I get this error:

activate:cd:3: no such file or directory: ~/Programming/path-to-venvs/Test
activate:source:4: no such file or directory: bin/activate

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Just to close this question properly:

Use absolute paths instead of relative paths in your function.

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