On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 1:43 PM John Chludzinski <john.chludzin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to use ~ in a path and got this: > > sudo dd if=~/Downloads/SSS/sss_image-20180817.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1048576 > > dd: failed to open '~/Downloads/SSS/sss_image-20180817.img': No such > file or directory > That is the expected behavior. From the documentation: Home directory expansion > The ~ (tilde) character at the beginning of a parameter, followed by a > username, is expanded into the home directory of the specified user. A lone > ~, or a ~followed by a slash, is expanded into the home directory of the > process owner. This is also how it works in shells like ksh and bash. The shell has no way of knowing that the string following "if=" is a path. You can use a var to do it: set x ~/Downloads/... sudo dd if=$x ... -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank
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