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Date:	Mon, 4 Mar 2002 08:19:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	Luke Bakken <luke_bakken AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Pavel Tsekov <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: [Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands which
	accept filename as parameter
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/bin/sh on Cygwin doesn't understand the ~ character.  It's a rather
limited shell.

try this:

:set shell=/bin/bash

Luke

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> Hey, there! :)
>
> I have noticed the following behaviour of VIM and thought it is worth
> reporting it to the list. Trying to execute an external command from
> vim and passing it a file name parameter from my home directory using
> the tilde character fails:
>
> sha1sum: ~/gdbtk.ini: No such file or directory
>
> shell returned 1
>
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue
>
> The output above is generated from the following vim command:
> ":!sha1sum.exe ~/gdbtk.ini". The same command on linux yields the
> right result.
>
> Actually I'll investigate/debug this further this night (maybe) but if
> someone knows more on this issue, feel free to speak :)
>
>
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