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Re: Not operator (~) fail on arithmetic expansion.
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Not operator (~) fail on arithmetic expansion. |
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Mon, 28 Nov 2016 11:06:06 -0600 |
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On 11/27/2016 11:54 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> Does ~ get home dirs for UID's? I thought it only worked
> for usernames? I would think that allowing user names that were
> all numeric would be confusing for software that accept either UID's or
> usernames. Can usernames even begin with a number?
Sadly, yes. In fact, username '0' need not have uid '0'.
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