Re: behaviour change between 4.2/4.3 with tilde

[Chet Ramey]

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On 10/22/14, 4:20 AM, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I experienced a somewhat unexpected behaviour change in bash 4.3
> comparing to 4.2.
> 
> This is a reduced sample:
> export a='x'; echo "${a/x/~}"
> 
> On bash 4.3 this will result in the user's homedir path. On 4.2 this
> will result in a ~.
> If one wants to get a "~" char there seems no easy portable way to do
> so. Using escaping with \~ works in 4.3, but not in 4.2.
> 
> I wanted to ask if this is an expected feature/behaviour change in 4.3
> or some kind of bug?

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-03/msg00038.html

Chet
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