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Re: faq: why doesn't tilde expansion work in shell scripts in cygwin?
- From: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: Dan Kegel <dkegel at ixiacom dot com>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 19:49:20 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- Subject: Re: faq: why doesn't tilde expansion work in shell scripts in cygwin?
- References: <15FDCE057B48784C80836803AE3598D53B8856@racerx.ixiacom.com>
On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:01:36 -0700 Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com> wrote:
> In all my shell scripts, I'm having to replace ~ with $HOME to
> get them to work under Cygwin. Seems a bit odd. Am I doing
> something wrong? This is with a fairly fresh installation
> of Cygwin on Win2K.
Which shell is being invoked for the scripts? If it is /bin/sh, ash
doesn't do tilde expansion.
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