Re: LYNX-DEV ~ -> $HOME in local URLs

[John E. Davis]

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 06:46:00 -0700 (PDT), Mike Brown <address@hidden> said:
>> There's a very annoying bug in lynx 2.6 and 2.7: "~"s anywhere in
>> local URLs get substituted by $HOME, so that, for example,
>
>It is not a bug, and has nothing to do with Lynx, actually.  Your shell
>parses the line and makes filename substiutions before executing the
>command. Quoting to defeat filename substituation by the shell is a
>tricky business sometimes.  If you put the URL in "quotes" you shouldn't
>have a problem.

This must be shell dependent.  For example, tcsh only expands ~ if it
is the first character:

[11:45am] /nfs/wiwaxia/h1/davis>echo ~
/nfs/wiwaxia/h1/davis
[11:45am] /nfs/wiwaxia/h1/davis>echo ~davis
/nfs/wiwaxia/h1/davis/davis
[11:45am] /nfs/wiwaxia/h1/davis>echo X~
X~
[11:45am] /nfs/wiwaxia/h1/davis>echo http://~davis
http://~davis

So, if the shell is tcsh, the quoting is not necessary.

--John

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