Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:40:18 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed) Message-ID: <20040928194018.GR26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:49:44PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Wonder if this is a real bug then, or if I've misread the shell parsing rules? >They are a bit ridiculously complicated and full of exceptions and special >cases..... It seems like it's a bug. Of course there is a simple solution: lose the quotes. AFAICT, they aren't needed. export PATH=~/bin:$PATH cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/