Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation

[Jon Seymour]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Angel Tsankov <fn42551@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> wrote:
> Jon Seymour wrote:
>> There may be other ways to do this, but:
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>>     CPATH="${CPATH}${CPATH:+:}$(echo ~usr1/blah/blah)"
>>
>> should work.
>
> Well, I'd like to avoid the use of external commands.
>

echo is a builtin, so if you are worried about performance costs
associated with its execution, you shouldn't be.

> --Angel
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