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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:17:05 +1000
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From: Errol Smith <errol AT ros DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed)
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At 03:27 AM 29/09/2004, Igor wrote:
> > Agreed, but aren't we talking about .bash_profile here ;-)?
>
>Ugh.  Yes.
>
>FWIW, /etc/profile does use '~' (in lines 191-195), so the above point is
>valid anyway (though by chance, rather than by intention)...

  I notice that it's also full of carriage returns! :-)

Errol

(if sh does not perform tilde expansion, shouldn't /etc/profile be modified 
so it doesn't use them?)


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