On 14/03/13 20:15, 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.
The shell bash only expands ~ when it's preceded by whitespace. Try wget --post-file ~/vimrc www.example.com As tilde expansion works the same for all programs, I don't think it should be changed in wget (although I also consider unlikely that bash would change it).
