From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 04:16:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA23768 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA23759 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:16:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from bergelmir.ifi.uio.no (2602@bergelmir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.172]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id NAA07010 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:16:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by bergelmir.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:16:03 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sh and ~ expansion Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 19 Oct 1998 13:16:03 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA23764 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why doesn't ~ expansion work in the following case: export GLORB=~ as it does in GLORB=~; export GLORB Is it a feature or a bug? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message