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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: ash does not understand '~' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:37:10 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= To: "cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h9HAbNUC019777 Hi Ralf, Ralf Habacker wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 12:20 PM: > the following shell script does not work at least with > ash-20031007-1 although I don't see any reason why this > should not be a valid syntax. If you use > > export PATH=${HOME}:/usr/bin > > then the scripts runs. bash has no problems with this. > > > --- ~/test ------- > #!/bin/sh > export PATH=~:/usr/bin > test2 > > --- ~/test2 ------- > #!/bin/sh > echo "test2" ash does not know "~", see: $ sh \[\033]0;\w\007 \033[1m\]\[\033[34m\][$SHLVL] \[\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ cd / \[\033]0;\w\007 \033[1m\]\[\033[34m\][$SHLVL] \[\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ cd ~ cd: can't cd to ~ \[\033]0;\w\007 \033[1m\]\[\033[34m\][$SHLVL] \[\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ exit BTW: It does also not know the "[ ]" syntax for a built-in test, you always have to use "test": if test -f /etc/hosts; then echo "/etc/hosts exist!" fi and you cannot combine export with an assignment, you have to write separate statements: VARIABLE=test export VARIABLE Just a short overview over the most common pitfalls :) Regards, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/