On 03/14/2013 12:15 PM, Darshit Shah wrote: > In fact I wrote this to specifically expand command line options, since > bash did not expand the tilde in the filename I gave through the > command line. > Here is the output I got. > > $ wget --post-file=~/vimrc www.example.com >> --2013-03-15 00:31:54-- http://www.example.com/ >> POST data file ‘~/vimrc’ missing: No such file or directory >> > > In case you say, that the shell should have handled this, I guess it's an > issue with bash, and I must work upstream to resolve it.
Not an issue with bash, either. Tilde expansion is only performed at the beginning of a word. Try replacing the "=" with a space; then bash will expand it and your problem is solved (assuming you really have a file named "vimrc" in your $HOME, instead of the more usual and useful ".vimrc". -mjc
