Re: [Help-bash] handling variables with tilde character

[kai]

Hello Chet,

> Tilde expansion of variables doesn't work.  The characters between 
> the
> tilde and the slash or end of the string are treated as a username.

that's exactly what i'm trying to do - use variables with tilde as an 
username. but bash seems to just ignore them. here is an example with 
touch:

00:21:18||/root# touch ~kai/123
00:21:27||/root# ls -la ~kai/123
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul  4 00:21 /home/kai/123
00:21:32||/root# rm ~kai/123
00:21:36||/root# ls -la ~kai/123
ls: cannot access /home/kai/123: No such file or directory
00:21:38||/root# user="kai"; touch ~$user/123
00:21:48||/root# ls -la ~kai/123
ls: cannot access /home/kai/123: No such file or directory

previous email shows that mkdir doesn't work either. testing with echo:

00:25:42||/root# user="kai"; echo test > ~$user/123
bash: ~kai/123: No such file or directory
00:26:43||/root# echo test > ~kai/123
00:26:47||/root# cat ~kai/123
test

variable still doesn't work. how shoild i use "~$username" pattern with 
commands?

Cheers,

Kai