Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 19:49:20 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: faq: why doesn't tilde expansion work in shell scripts in cygwin? To: Dan Kegel , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <15FDCE057B48784C80836803AE3598D53B8856@racerx.ixiacom.com> In-Reply-To: <15FDCE057B48784C80836803AE3598D53B8856@racerx.ixiacom.com> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:01:36 -0700 Dan Kegel 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. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/