diff --git a/complete.go b/complete.go
index dc4c5ce..01a8137 100644
--- a/complete.go
+++ b/complete.go
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ func binaryComplete(query, ctx string, fields []string) ([]string, string) {
 			fileCompletions, filePref := matchPath(query)
 			if len(fileCompletions) != 0 {
 				for _, f := range fileCompletions {
-					fullPath, _ := filepath.Abs(expandHome(query + strings.TrimPrefix(f, filePref)))
+					fullPath, _ := filepath.Abs(util.ExpandHome(query + strings.TrimPrefix(f, filePref)))
 					if err := findExecutable(fullPath, false, true); err != nil {
 						continue
 					}
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ func matchPath(query string) ([]string, string) {
 	var entries []string
 	var baseName string
 
-	path, _ := filepath.Abs(expandHome(filepath.Dir(query)))
+	path, _ := filepath.Abs(util.ExpandHome(filepath.Dir(query)))
 	if string(query) == "" {
 		// filepath base below would give us "."
 		// which would cause a match of only dotfiles
diff --git a/golibs/fs/fs.go b/golibs/fs/fs.go
index eda1671..950e966 100644
--- a/golibs/fs/fs.go
+++ b/golibs/fs/fs.go
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ func loaderFunc(rtm *rt.Runtime) (rt.Value, func()) {
 
 	util.Document(mod, `The fs module provides easy and simple access to
 filesystem functions and other things, and acts an
-addition to the Lua standard library's I/O and fs functions.`)
+addition to the Lua standard library's I/O and filesystem functions.`)
 
 	return rt.TableValue(mod), nil
 }
@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ func fcd(t *rt.Thread, c *rt.GoCont) (rt.Cont, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	path = util.ExpandHome(strings.TrimSpace(path))
 
-	err = os.Chdir(strings.TrimSpace(path))
+	err = os.Chdir(path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ func fmkdir(t *rt.Thread, c *rt.GoCont) (rt.Cont, error) {
 	if err := c.CheckNArgs(2); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	dirname, err := c.StringArg(0)
+	path, err := c.StringArg(0)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ func fmkdir(t *rt.Thread, c *rt.GoCont) (rt.Cont, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	path := strings.TrimSpace(dirname)
+	path = util.ExpandHome(strings.TrimSpace(path))
 
 	if recursive {
 		err = os.MkdirAll(path, 0744)
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ func fstat(t *rt.Thread, c *rt.GoCont) (rt.Cont, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	path = util.ExpandHome(path)
 
 	pathinfo, err := os.Stat(path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -122,6 +124,7 @@ func freaddir(t *rt.Thread, c *rt.GoCont) (rt.Cont, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	dir = util.ExpandHome(dir)
 	names := rt.NewTable()
 
 	dirEntries, err := os.ReadDir(dir)
@@ -143,6 +146,7 @@ func fabs(t *rt.Thread, c *rt.GoCont) (rt.Cont, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	path = util.ExpandHome(path)
 
 	abspath, err := filepath.Abs(path)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index ac79487..c0fce06 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ func main() {
 		defaultConfDir = filepath.Join(confDir, "hilbish")
 	} else {
 		// else do ~ substitution
-		defaultConfDir = filepath.Join(expandHome(defaultConfDir), "hilbish")
+		defaultConfDir = filepath.Join(util.ExpandHome(defaultConfDir), "hilbish")
 	}
 	defaultConfPath = filepath.Join(defaultConfDir, "init.lua")
 	if defaultHistDir == "" {
 		defaultHistDir = filepath.Join(userDataDir, "hilbish")
 	} else {
-		defaultHistDir = filepath.Join(expandHome(defaultHistDir), "hilbish")
+		defaultHistDir = filepath.Join(util.ExpandHome(defaultHistDir), "hilbish")
 	}
 	defaultHistPath = filepath.Join(defaultHistDir, ".hilbish-history")
 	helpflag := getopt.BoolLong("help", 'h', "Prints Hilbish flags")
@@ -273,11 +273,6 @@ func handleHistory(cmd string) {
 	// TODO: load history again (history shared between sessions like this ye)
 }
 
-func expandHome(path string) string {
-	homedir := curuser.HomeDir
-	return strings.Replace(path, "~", homedir, 1)
-}
-
 func removeDupes(slice []string) []string {
 	all := make(map[string]bool)
 	newSlice := []string{}
diff --git a/util/util.go b/util/util.go
index 6b5860e..4bfecc9 100644
--- a/util/util.go
+++ b/util/util.go
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ package util
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"io"
+	"strings"
 	"os"
+	"os/user"
 
 	rt "github.com/arnodel/golua/runtime"
 )
@@ -150,3 +152,10 @@ func ForEach(tbl *rt.Table, cb func(key rt.Value, val rt.Value)) {
 		cb(key, val)
 	}
 }
+
+func ExpandHome(path string) string {
+	curuser, _ := user.Current()
+	homedir := curuser.HomeDir
+
+	return strings.Replace(path, "~", homedir, 1)
+}