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From: alan@frey.newcastle.edu.au (Alan Hargreaves)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: '~' in file names
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.000018.15048@frey.newcastle.edu.au>
Date: 1 Mar 91 00:00:18 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.151019.22944@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <30953@shamash.cdc.com>
Organization: Department of Mathematics, Uni of Newcastle, Oz.
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rrr@u02.svl.cdc.com (Rich Ragan) writes:

>Agreed, the shell does this and it is very useful. Because we
>sometimes move users from one file system to another to balance
>disk usage, we strongly encourage users to employ ~ to avoid
>having to change absolute paths if they get moved. I have been

so why not get them to use $HOME? For starters there are a few Standard
shells around that don't map ~ to $HOME. $HOME is much safer.

alan.
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