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[Emil Payne]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>   
>> Heike C. Zimmerer:
>>
>>     
>>> And if you want ~ to expand to another user's home directory than the
>>> current, suffix it by its login name.  E.g., ~sg1/Desktop will expand to
>>> /home/sg1/Desktop if sg1's home directory is there. 
>>>       
>> Indeed. And this should be plain obvious to anyone having read, for
>> example, the first paragraph of the "Tilde Expansion" section in the
>> bash manpage.
>> To anyone but me, that is. I've somehow managed to miss this, until now.
>> So, thanks for mentioning it!
>>
>>     
>
> yeah...but how many people have read the "tilde exapnsion" section of 
> the bash man page?
> seriously
>
> I haven't.
>
> /tony
>   


I did, a long time ago (5 years?) on a distribution far, far away (I 
think it was RedHat 4 or 5). But I'm feeling much better now, (and 
forgot most of it)!

EHSP
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