1.1.8: cygpath doesn't expand ~ correctly when running sh

[egor duda]

Hi!

Friday, 18 May, 2001 Doru Carastan doru.carastan@windriver.com wrote:

D:\cygwin\bin>sh -c "echo $HOME"
DC> /home/carastan

D:\cygwin\bin>sh -c "echo ~/bin"
DC> ~/bin

D:\cygwin\bin>sh -c "./cygpath -au ~/bin"
DC> /usr/bin/~/bin

DC> but

D:\cygwin\bin>bash -c "./cygpath -au ~/bin"
DC> /home/carastan/bin

DC> and

D:\cygwin\bin>cygpath -au ~/bin
DC> /home/carastan/bin

DC> work fine. Any ideas why?

tilde expansion is a shell feature, not cygpath's. bash is doing it,
ash isn't.

cygwin itself is doing it too, but only when application is run from
windows shell, not from other cygwin application. that's why your last
command expanded tilde correctly.

anyway, "cygpath" has nothing to do with tilde expansion.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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