From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: ~ arg
22 Feb 1998 11:40:59 -0800
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Hi \,

>Just found an interesting little problem: ~ maps to my home directory
>alright, but it just uses the name of my directory as a filename. I have
>HOME set to /homes/zow so when I do:
>cp foo.c ~
>it copies the file to a file named homeszow in the same directory. Do I
>have something set up wrong, is this a known problem (that someone possibly
>has a patch for?), or should I go wade through the bash source?

Are you sure, you have HOME=/homes/zow ?
I suppose it is HOME=\homes\zow instead.

>
>TIA,
>Terry

BYe.
Michael.
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