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[Lawrence V. Cipriani]

In article <6463 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asg at sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes:
>Tilde expansion:
>
>This shell does tilde  expansion:
>
>~ = $HOME
>~/foo = $HOME/foo
>~fred/foo = (fred's home directory)/foo
>~+/foo = $PWD/foo
>~-/foo = $OLDPWD/foo

Is ~ expansion done at read time or execute time?  Doing it at read time
can lead to suprising results when ~ expansion is present in aliases.
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You've got some great ideas in there; I forwarded a copy to Dave Korn.
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Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc at cbvox.att.com
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