[TESTERS needed] New POSIX permission handling

Adam Dinwoodie adam@dinwoodie.org
Sun Apr 12 17:37:00 GMT 2015


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 ‘~+’, 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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