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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#33255: 27.0.50; expand-file-name: default directory expanded twice if relative |
Date: | Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:44:25 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 |
On 11/20/18 11:08 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_01I had looked at that page before. Looking again, I still don't see anything as clear-cut as "POSIX says that sh treats ~/foo like $HOME/foo even when HOME is not absolute".
It needs to be read in context. Section 2.6.1 is about tilde expansion in the shell, e.g., how to treat commands like this:
cd ~eggert/xxx cd ~/yyy2.6.1 says "If the login name is null (that is, the tilde-prefix contains only the tilde), the tilde-prefix is replaced by the value of the variable /HOME."/ This is talking about the second "echo" example which uses a null login name, and it means that the second example is treated like this:
cd "$HOME"/yyy/ /(The quotes are because of the last sentence in that section of the spec.) This occurs regardless of whether $HOME starts with /"/".//
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