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Re: Unexpected tilde expansion
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Unexpected tilde expansion |
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Wed, 1 Jun 2016 11:20:15 -0400 |
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On 6/1/16 9:33 AM, Christian wrote:
> Hello,
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> I have been playing around with tilde expansion lately and I think i
> have discovered a case where the tilde is expanded where it, according
> to the documentation, should not.
When running in its default mode, bash expands the tilde in that situation
because it always has. When running in Posix mode, it doesn't.
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