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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 19:49:20 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From: Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Subject: Re: faq: why doesn't tilde expansion work in shell scripts in cygwin?
To: Dan Kegel <dkegel AT ixiacom DOT com>, "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:01:36 -0700 Dan Kegel <dkegel AT ixiacom DOT com> 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.
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