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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: "which" command does not expand "~" in path
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:30:23 +0200
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you wrote:

>>>> script). Igor --
>>> 
>>> $ u="Hannu";sed -nre "s/^$u.*:(.*):.*$/\1/p" </etc/passwd
> 
> This works only because "/" is not a valid variable name. :-p

 Ehm.. ;-P  - could that be called a lucky shot?


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems            --72-->

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