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Re: A $ in my path...
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:57:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: A $ in my path...
- References: <20132275.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM, ProblematicRoutes wrote:
> $ pwd
> //sbs01/students_home$/csmith
>
> This $ sign causes problems everywhere - with latex, with svn, with anything
> that uses ~ to refer to my home directory, because it expands to ...$/...
> and bash tries to parse the $/ as a variable.
Really? I'm hard-pressed to think of ways that you could use ~ or
$HOME that would then lead to the result of that expansion being
re-analyzed for further parameter expansion as well. It seems like
you'd have to go out of your way to make that be a problem.
But the workaround, if you have the privileges to do it, would be to
make a $-less symbolic link and change your passwd entry to match.
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
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