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~/foo expanded inside single quotes
From: |
gisle |
Subject: |
~/foo expanded inside single quotes |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:25:42 -0700 |
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_GNU_SOURCE -I. -I. -I./include
-I./lib -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
uname output: Linux caliper.activestate.com 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT
2002 i686 unknown
Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 2.05a
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release
Description:
I believe that ~/foo should not be expanded when in single quotes.
We discovered that this happens when used as argument to case.
Repeat-By:
$ case `echo '=~/64all' >xx` in *) cat xx;; esac
=/home/gisle/64all
- ~/foo expanded inside single quotes,
gisle <=