Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:51:27 -0800 (PST) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Does "~" always point to $HOME? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0701261451270.15243@hymn07.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070126160107.0e5c8646@loki.starkstrom.lan>
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:14 +0100 > Karol Kwiatkowski <karol.kwiat@gmail.com> 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. | Unfortunately the target system (now) for the documentation is suse Linux, and I don't have any control over what the company chooses for its Unix OS in the future. So to reduce rewriting the documentation in the future I thought it'd be better to seek out the common denominator in Unix shells. Besides, if people are smart enough (and most people are here), they can translate $HOME to ~ :). -Garrett
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