I ran into this problem writing some backup scripts using tar. When I
run into problems I extract the problem and put it in a seperate file
for testing. I was looking for a way to get the system to expand ~ into
$HOME. Since that is not possible it has to be done manually in the
script. Thanks to all for the education and fix.
Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> BASH 'expands' the ~ to the value of $HOME whenever it is passed-in to
> any program as a command-line arg. This is not going to happen for
> interactive user input. You might be able to use 'expr' to perform the
> expansion:
> read directory
> fi
> echo "dir = " `expr $directory`
>
> Something like that should work.
>
> You aren't trying to get this script to change your pwd are you? Unless
> you 'source' that script every time, you will be changing the pwd of the
> shell that was launched just for the purpose of executing the script.
> Once the script exits, and the short-lived shell terminates, the pwd of
> your original shell should be unchanged.
>
> --ronan
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-- Jan Mason td376@mail.anonymizer.com
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