"which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 29 09:19:00 GMT 2004


On Sep 28 15:40, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:49:44PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >  Wonder if this is a real bug then, or if I've misread the shell parsing rules?
> >They are a bit ridiculously complicated and full of exceptions and special
> >cases.....
> 
> It seems like it's a bug.

AFAICT, bash behaves according to its man page:

  QUOTING
      [...]
      Enclosing  characters  in double quotes preserves the lit­
      eral value of all characters within the quotes,  with  the
      exception  of  $, `, and \.


Corinna

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