Circa 2002-Feb-26 17:14:27 -0500 dixit Jan Schaumann:
: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > yep '~' is a GNU ism (-:
:
: It is?
No, it isn't. It first appeared in the C-shell, and soon after that in
the Korn shell. Subsequent shells (including GNU Bash) got it from one
of those two places.
I have no idea if "~" is actually specified in the POSIX shell (IEEE
1003.2) or subsequent standards, such as SUSv3, because IEEE and the
Open Group seem to charge money for the standards, which i can't afford
to pay.
: So "~" is not functional in the original Bourne Shell?
No. "${HOME}" is pretty much functional everywhere, though.
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