Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation

[Chet Ramey]

Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Using bash 3.2.48(1)-release, echo ""~root  prints ~root instead of /root. 
> Is this the expected behaviour?

Yes.  The tilde is not the first character in the word.  Portions of
words to be tilde-expanded can't be quoted at all, either.

Chet

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