Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26-Feb-2002 Jan Schaumann wrote: > > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> yep '~' is a GNU ism (-:
> > So "~" is not functional in the original Bourne Shell? > Get someone to try it on a Sun with a "real" /bin/sh. (jschauma@heineken) [/tmp]$ ./foo.sh ~: No such file or directory (jschauma@heineken) [/tmp]$ uname -a SunOS heineken 5.5.1 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20 (jschauma@heineken) [/tmp]$ So it seems. Well, learned something today! :) -Jan -- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not CC me when replying to messages on a Mailing List. See Mail-Followup-To header (above) and http://www.google.com/search?q=Mail-Followup-To+Header