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In article <8906270547.AA01124@hobbes.ai.mit.edu> roland@AI.MIT.EDU (Roland McGrath) writes:
>The evaluation order of ~ vs $ is not like csh's.  Maybe this is wrong?

Bash is not csh.

All the Bourne-style shells (basically shells that do Bourne-style single
quote evaluation) that I have access to that do tilde expansion (bash, ksh,
a hacked s5r2 /bin/sh) are consistent.  Bash does it right, if sh compatibility
is the goal.

If you want the csh-style results, assigning to foo without the quotes seems
to work.  A weirder way to get what you want is this:

pirate$ foo='~/bin'
pirate$ echo $foo
~/bin
pirate$ foo=$(eval echo $foo)
pirate$ echo $foo
/usr/homes/chet/bin


Chet



Chet Ramey     Network Services Group, CWRU    chet@cwjcc.INS.CWRU.Edu

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