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Date:	Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:44:36 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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To:	cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
CC:	"Tolkin, Steve" <Steve DOT Tolkin AT fmr DOT com>
Subject:	Re: rm does not remove; ls tem* does not find temp; echo ~foo
References:	<F614BF868E0DD411A5A700508B957E0038D017 AT MSGBOS679NTS DOT fmr DOT com> <3938CF34 DOT CDDF5E84 AT vinschen DOT de>

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 588/temp> echo ~
> > /usr/home
> > 589/temp> echo ~a
> >
> > -- A blank line is emitted.  Why?
> 
> Because there's no user `a'. The behaviour of the tilde
> is intentionally. ~ = $HOME of the current user, ~foo =
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     For clearness: It's a shell feature, not a special
     cygwin feature.

> $HOME of user foo. You may use it as a convenient abbreviation
> in paths. If you don't want that, use quotes.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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