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Re: Simple use of HOME with ${} instead of single $ sometimes doen't wor
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Simple use of HOME with ${} instead of single $ sometimes doen't work... Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS |
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Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:13:54 -0400 |
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On 10/20/23 5:41 AM, Etienne Lorrain via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne
Again SHell wrote:
etienne@etienne-7950x:~$ echo ${HOME}:/home/${USER}
bash: ${HOME}:/home/${USER}: bad substitution
etienne@etienne-7950x:~$ echo ${HOME}
bash: ${HOME}: bad substitution
The most likely explanation is that those are not ASCII braces, but some
multibyte character. You might also have non-visible characters there
that can't form a valid variable name.
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