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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:28:23 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: ash does not understand '~'
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:19:36PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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

The reason is, '~' is an extension to the bourne shell syntax, first
defined in csh or tcsh, AFAIK.  ash is a pure bourne shell with next
to no extensions. Using '~' in a shell script is non-portable.

Corinna

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