~ expansion in bash

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1 total messages Started by SiKing Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:49

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Author: SiKing
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:49

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Hi all,

I ran into a strange "thing" with ~ expansion in bash. I do not know if I found 
a bug or a feature.

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.14(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.8)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ touch "~/something strange"; echo $?
touch: ~/something strange cannot create
1
$ touch ~/something\ strange; echo $?
0
$ cd ~
$ touch "something strange"; echo $?
0


Is this a known thing?

Thanx, SK.

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