On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:19:36PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: > Hi, > > the following shell script does not work at least with ash-20031007-1 > although I don't see any reason why this should not be a valid syntax. If > you use
The reason is, '~' is an extension to the bourne shell syntax, first defined in csh or tcsh, AFAIK. ash is a pure bourne shell with next to no extensions. Using '~' in a shell script is non-portable. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/