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Re: is it normal that ${var:-~/path} doesnt resolve ~ to $HOME
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: is it normal that ${var:-~/path} doesnt resolve ~ to $HOME |
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Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:48:51 -0500 |
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On 11/15/22 11:44 AM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
xmb@lt:~$ cat fix.IrcLog
#!/bin/bash
sed -ri -e '/Unable to/d' -e '/refnum 0\]/d' "${1:-~/IrcLog}"
xmb@lt:~$ bash fix.IrcLog
sed: can't read ~/IrcLog: No such file or directory
Double quotes inhibit tilde expansion.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/