-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:45:38 +0530 Darshit Shah <[email protected]> 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 Bash works correctly in this case. Please have a look at Texinfo documentation for the Bash. Bash separates (command line) input into `words'. In this case the `words' are separated by IFS Bourne shell variable. CITE `word' A sequence of characters treated as a unit by the shell. Words may not include unquoted `metacharacters'. ... If a word begins with an unquoted tilde character (`~'), all of the characters up to the first unquoted slash (or all characters, if there is no unquoted slash) are considered a TILDE-PREFIX. EOCITE In other words you need to have a character in the IFS variable *before* the tilde character. IFS by default means whitespace characters and a newline. Usually like the following. IFS=' \t\n' To do what you want just write $ wget --post-file ~/vimrc www.example.com or $ wget --post-file "~/vimrc" www.example.com - -- S pozdravem / Kind regards Pavel Kačer Join us and use free software. http://www.fsf.org/ I am FSF member decimal number 10000 (0x2710). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlFCPFgACgkQbXIOSC+VLYPupwEA3PeFHgpLzMSdWtKvLIzf8E35 QqlxY6kfIucTkRsggi8BANhEvFhnhBl3N9z6hBLhsAuhS/o7Z6aoaJ0xrKjSCnVc =g2UD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
