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Re: invoke tilde expansion on quoted string
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Geir Hauge |
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Re: invoke tilde expansion on quoted string |
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Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:53:40 +0100 |
2011/11/12 Chris F.A. Johnson <chris@cfajohnson.com>
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Peng Yu wrote:
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>> I'm wondering if I already have a string variable, is there a bash
>> native to do tilde expansion on it.
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>> var='~/..'
>> cd $var#how to change this line?
>>
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> eval "cd $var"
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I'd avoid eval as that could potentially do more than just expand the
tilde, depending on what other characters the var contains. I'd just
replace the ~ with $HOME using parameter expansion.
cd "${var/#~\//$HOME/}"
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Geir Hauge