From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 15:26:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D8516A485 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:26:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jp@bsdgroup.de) Received: from digitiminimi.de (digitiminimi.de [80.242.136.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE7A513C491 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:26:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jp@bsdgroup.de) Received: from localhost (digitiminimi.de [80.242.136.80]) by digitiminimi.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46F6DA9C0; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:02:27 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digitiminimi.de Received: from digitiminimi.de ([80.242.136.80]) by localhost (main.digitiminimi.de [80.242.136.80]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dlybd70QQ12x; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:02:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from loki.starkstrom.lan (p57B578F7.dip.t-dialin.net [87.181.120.247]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by digitiminimi.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B613DA80E; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:02:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:01:07 +0100 From: Joerg Pernfuss To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070126160107.0e5c8646@loki.starkstrom.lan> In-Reply-To: <45BA0E5A.6030503@gmail.com> References: <20070126070730.GA10081@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <45BA0E5A.6030503@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Bill Campbell , karol.kwiat@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OT] Does "~" always point to $HOME? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:26:19 -0000 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:14 +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > > While that's true for most shells, bash, csh, tcsh, etc., it > > doesn't work on true Bourne /bin/sh shells (e.g. SCO OpenServer > > 5.0.6a and earlier and probably others with Bell Labs ancestors). > > Not sure what I'm missing, is FreeBSD's /bin/sh shell not "true" > Bourne Shell? Was it extended in some way from traditional one? FreeBSD /bin/sh is actually an ash, which roughly translates into a POSIX shell with a few additions that do not break compatibility. At least that is how I understood it. Joerg -- | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. | -- | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. |