Angel Tsankov wrote: > Hi, > > Using bash 3.2.48(1)-release, echo ""~root prints ~root instead of /root. > Is this the expected behaviour?
Yes. The tilde is not the first character in the word. Portions of words to be tilde-expanded can't be quoted at all, either. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
