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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:58:26 +0200 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1094385246.5803.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <6.1.2.0.1.20040926005459.02810cb0@mail.ros.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd953c3b7.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes >> Instead, the shell usually substitutes ~ or ~user. >> Look at this the output of these commands: >> echo ~ >> echo "~" > > This is probably common knowledge, but I learned last night that sh > never expands ~. Under sh, the two lines above yield the same output, > simply ~. I can confirm that for cygwin. The "common knowledge" may be, because the most Linux-systems have sh linked to bash. Cygwin seems to have a separate "sh" installed. But is there any command that give's me the home for a given username? -- 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/