On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Craig Thrall wrote: > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:20:45 -0700 > From: Craig Thrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Sean 'Shaleh' Perry' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > blackbox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: bbsession script v0.02 > > > Get someone to try it on a Sun with a "real" /bin/sh. > > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic February 2000 > bash-2.03$ /bin/sh > $ ls ~ > ~: No such file or directory > $ echo $HOME > /home/cthrall >
I tried this on Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8), and got the same results. A little more searching shows that 5.8 uses korn shell 1988 (ksh88) as its default shell. The newer ksh93 (both the commercial and the open source release) supports "~/" without a problem. David
