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: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 01:06:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: faq: why doesn't tilde expansion work in shell scripts in cyg win? Message-ID: <20020825050621.GA1595@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <15FDCE057B48784C80836803AE3598D53B885A@racerx.ixiacom.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020824211950.01fad140@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020824211950.01fad140@pop3.cris.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:26:18PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>Am I correct? It's a little suprising to find Cygwin doesn't use a >>Posix-compliant shell... > >As I understand it, Cygwin includes ash specifically as a very-light-weight >shell for scripting and makefiles. It's small size and minimal feature set >gives it a low start-up time, which helps a lot when many of them get >executed, for example when running make. Correct. cgf -- 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/