> It's not generally true, tilde works just as expected here on C6 with bash.
> Perhaps something's been cached by bash from when NIS was setup incorrectly?
That's most likely it. All is working fine after a reboot.
> I'd assume cd ~root would work if that was the case.
It does.
isdtor wrote:
> Set up NIS and autofs on this new CentOS6 box, but it seems tilde
> expansion no longer works in bash?
>
> [root@frodo ~]# cd ~john
> -bash: cd: ~john: No such file or directory
> [root@frodo ~]# cd /home/john
Works jes' fine for me. There's something either in your environment, or
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, isdtor wrote:
> Set up NIS and autofs on this new CentOS6 box, but it seems tilde
> expansion no longer works in bash?
>
> [root@frodo ~]# cd ~john
> -bash: cd: ~john: No such file or directory
> [root@frodo ~]# cd /home/john
> [root@frodo john]# pwd
> /home/john
> [root@frodo
Set up NIS and autofs on this new CentOS6 box, but it seems tilde
expansion no longer works in bash?
[root@frodo ~]# cd ~john
-bash: cd: ~john: No such file or directory
[root@frodo ~]# cd /home/john
[root@frodo john]# pwd
/home/john
[root@frodo john]#
It still works in t/csh:
[root@frodo ~]# /b
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