On Nov 28 2016, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not replying for Chet, who will have the definitive answer, I will say that > I, personally, think that is working as designed. ~ 0 (with space between) > is definitely the "not" operator. But without the middle space, ~0, where > there is a white space character in front of the tilde, looks to me like > the normal "get the home directory for the following id" processing. Eg: ~0 > gets the home for the 0 user (same as ~user) whereas in "a~0", then tilde > is simply a character. This is basically how ever other Bourne type shell > seems to work.
In Bash, ~0 means the 0th entry of the directory stack, ie. $PWD. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."
