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From: lvc@cbnews.att.com (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: bash documentation
Keywords: bash
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.012713.24134@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 01:27:13 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.203710.21944@progress.com> <6463@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Ideology Busters, Inc.
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In article <6463@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes:
>Tilde expansion:
>
>This shell does tilde  expansion:
>
>~ = $HOME
>~/foo = $HOME/foo
>~fred/foo = (fred's home directory)/foo
>~+/foo = $PWD/foo
>~-/foo = $OLDPWD/foo

Is ~ expansion done at read time or execute time?  Doing it at read time
can lead to suprising results when ~ expansion is present in aliases.
--
You've got some great ideas in there; I forwarded a copy to Dave Korn.
-- 
Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc@cbvox.att.com
"Fight fire with fire, I always say" -- Bugs Bunny


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