Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:19:50 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> To: "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion Message-ID: <362B74B6.B9B256B4@gorean.org> References: <xzp67dgg5u4.fsf@bergelmir.ifi.uio.no>
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"Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" wrote: > > Why doesn't ~ expansion work in the following case: > > export GLORB=~ > > as it does in > > GLORB=~; export GLORB I've seen a couple of people complain about 'export foo=bar' causing problems in our implementation of sh. I haven't looked at why it's a problem but if it's any comfort, yes, it seems to be a bug. I've gotten into the habit of using 'foo=bar; export foo' when using sh anyway since it's more portable. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** Go PADRES! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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