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From: frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier)
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Subject: Rank beginners question
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Date: 2 May 91 17:35:18 GMT
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Hi-howdy -
	I am a beginner perl hack (obviously).  I am trying
to get my script to manipulate some files in my directory.
This works
	@foo = `ls *`;
but this does not work
	@foo = `ls ~frazier`;
the error msg is
	~frazier not found

I do not understand why the '*' gets expanded correctly but
'~frazier' does not.  BTW, I am running cshell
($ENV{'SHELL'}=/bin/csh).  The man page for csh indicates that
'*' and '~[username]' are both examples of filename expansion,
so I would have assumed that if one was happening, the other
would too.  I have tried various quotes and escapes to no
avail:
	@foo = `ls '~frazier'`;
	@foo = `ls \~frazier`;
	@foo = `'ls ~frazier'`;

Any and all responses appreciated.  And, no, I do not want
to use $ENV{`HOME`}, 'cuz I'd like other people to be able
to run this script (and the files are in my directory).
-- 


Greg Frazier	frazier@CS.UCLA.EDU	!{ucbvax,rutgers}!ucla-cs!frazier