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From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: AW: ash does not understand '~'
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:15:07 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <20031017102823.GP25076@cygbert.vinschen.de>

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.
> 
Thanks, there is always something new to learn :-)

Ralf 


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