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Re: trailing slash in HOME variable


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: trailing slash in HOME variable
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:34:25 -0400
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Dr. Christoph Gille wrote:
> Command prompt:
> Abbreviation of home path by tilde is not working when $HOME has a trailing 
> slash

A tilde-prefix can never include a trailing slash, so it won't match a
value of HOME that has one.
-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/




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