On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:40, Wayne Rooney wrote:
> Now if ~ means the home directory of the current user, and cron runs as
> root, isn't ~ame/rootwashere going to expand to /rootame/rootwashere?

Ahh... almost

~/ will get expanded to the current users' home directory, but ~username/ will 
get expanded to the user "username" 's home directory.  Note that this is all 
done by the *shell*, most programs don't know about it (and don't see it).

> Wayne

Later
Lee

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