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Re: ~ arg
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- Subject: Re: ~ arg
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 22 Feb 1998 17:45:00 +0100
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi \,
>Just found an interesting little problem: ~ maps to my home directory
>alright, but it just uses the name of my directory as a filename. I have
>HOME set to /homes/zow so when I do:
>cp foo.c ~
>it copies the file to a file named homeszow in the same directory. Do I
>have something set up wrong, is this a known problem (that someone possibly
>has a patch for?), or should I go wade through the bash source?
Are you sure, you have HOME=/homes/zow ?
I suppose it is HOME=\homes\zow instead.
>
>TIA,
>Terry
BYe.
Michael.
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- From: \"Zow\" Terry Brugger