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Re: rm does not remove; ls tem* does not find temp; echo ~foo

To: cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: rm does not remove; ls tem* does not find temp; echo ~foo
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:44:36 +0200
CC: "Tolkin, Steve" <Steve dot Tolkin at fmr dot com>
References: <F614BF868E0DD411A5A700508B957E0038D017@MSGBOS679NTS.fmr.com> <3938CF34.CDDF5E84@vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 588/temp> echo ~
> > /usr/home
> > 589/temp> echo ~a
> >
> > -- A blank line is emitted.  Why?
> 
> Because there's no user `a'. The behaviour of the tilde
> is intentionally. ~ = $HOME of the current user, ~foo =
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     For clearness: It's a shell feature, not a special
     cygwin feature.

> $HOME of user foo. You may use it as a convenient abbreviation
> in paths. If you don't want that, use quotes.

Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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References:
- rm does not remove; ls tem* does not find temp; echo ~foo
  - From: Tolkin, Steve
- Re: rm does not remove; ls tem* does not find temp; echo ~foo
  - From: Corinna Vinschen

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