Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:30:56 -0800 (PST) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Does "~" always point to $HOME? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0701251330560.18233@hymn07.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070125195049.GA5742@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007, youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote:
>> Hello again,
>> I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix
>> commands and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I
>> can substitute the tilde character ('~') for $HOME. The only issue I
>> can see with this is an improper configuration with sudo (ran into some
>> problems with $HOME in the past using sudo on Gentoo), but I'm pretty
>> sure that sudo's setup on the machine cluster properly.
>
> That's true on most relatively modern shells, but not on pure
> Bourne Shell, /bin/sh.
>
> As for ``sudo'', ``sudo -'' invokes the login environment while a
> plain ``sudo'' doesn't.
>
> Bill
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Ok, I'll stick with home then.
Thanks!
-Garrett
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