On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:48:25AM -0700, Scott D. Yelich wrote:

> > blocked."
> > echo "Great Hunt."
> > rm ~/.rbltmp.bak
> > #EOF
> 
> Has anyone managed to get this to run?
> My /bin/sh doesn't do ~ expansion
> and the awk line appears tohave syntax errors with either the "
> or the ` or both.

Traditional bourne shells did not do tilde expansion. The newer sh that
comes with OS's like FreeBSD will do tilde expansion. It's best to use csh
for tilde expansion to maintain portability, or to explicitly use bash.

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