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Re: [TESTERS needed] New POSIX permission handling
- From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam at dinwoodie dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:21:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: [TESTERS needed] New POSIX permission handling
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On 11/04/2015 16:58, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Steven Penny!
>
>>> What is '~+'? Is that some weird bash feature?
>
>> If the tilde-prefix is â~+â, the value of the shell variable PWD
>> replaces the tilde-prefix.
>
>> http://gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion
>
> In other words, "~+/" is a weird way to say "./" ?
Strictly, no: `echo ./` will print `./`, while `echo ~+/` will print the
absolute current path, the same as `echo "$PWD"/` would.
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