On 26-Feb-2002 Jan Schaumann wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> yep '~' is a GNU ism (-: > > It is? > > > So "~" is not functional in the original Bourne Shell? >
Get someone to try it on a Sun with a "real" /bin/sh. My experience has been it only worked under glibc based systems. Yes, writing portable shell sucks (-: