Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <3938E194.226D91FC@vinschen.de> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:44:36 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin CC: "Tolkin, Steve" Subject: Re: rm does not remove; ls tem* does not find temp; echo ~foo References: <3938CF34.CDDF5E84@vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com