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Re: [Help-bash] handling variables with tilde character
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] handling variables with tilde character |
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Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:59:51 -0400 |
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On 7/3/12 3:48 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
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> i'm experiencing some strange bash behaviour with tilde char in front of
> variables.
Tilde expansion of variables doesn't work. The characters between the
tilde and the slash or end of the string are treated as a username. If
you want to use variables with tilde expansion, you have to tinker with
`eval'.
Chet
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