On 07/06/2022 10:42 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 7/6/22 18:41, H wrote: >> To my consternation this worked fine in some places but not in others. > > > It might be easier to explain if you had an example of where it worked. The > bash man page has a section titled "EXPANSION" that details the order in > which expansions happen. Since tilde expansion happens before variable > expansion, the case you're discussing shouldn't work in any context (other > than an eval or equivalent). > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Thank you, I read up on bash expansion of tilde and realized substituting $HOME for ~ would be the best. Once I had done that the script worked. The reason it worked in some places may have been that I had set the script to POSIX compliant using: set +o posix _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
