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Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed)
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Brian Ford wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > Oh, and your suggestion definitely won't work for sh, which also uses
> > /etc/profile. IMO, any shell-specific code in /etc/profile should go
> > into the shell-specific section of /etc/profile, and the rest of it
> > should be Bourne shell compatible.
>
> Agreed, but aren't we talking about .bash_profile here ;-)?
Ugh. Yes.
FWIW, /etc/profile does use '~' (in lines 191-195), so the above point is
valid anyway (though by chance, rather than by intention)...
Igor
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