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Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed)


At 03:27 AM 29/09/2004, Igor wrote:
> Agreed, but aren't we talking about .bash_profile here ;-)?

Ugh. Yes.

FWIW, /etc/profile does use '~' (in lines 191-195), so the above point is
valid anyway (though by chance, rather than by intention)...

I notice that it's also full of carriage returns! :-)


Errol

(if sh does not perform tilde expansion, shouldn't /etc/profile be modified so it doesn't use them?)


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