Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:50:49 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Does "~" always point to $HOME? Message-ID: <20070125195049.GA5742@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0701251138500.18233@hymn07.u.washington.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0701251138500.18233@hymn07.u.washington.edu>
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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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