Sorry for my error. I get, in fact:
$ echo ~macports
/opt/local/var/macports/home
$ ls -al ~macports
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 macports macports 102 Dec 10 16:01 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 12 root admin 408 Dec 10 16:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Dec 10 16:01 Library
$ ls -al ~macports/Library
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Dec 10 16:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 macports macports 102 Dec 10 16:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 68 Dec 10 17:18 Preferences
Is that what’s expected?
> On Dec 10, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com
> <mailto:murrayeisenb...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> $ echo -macports
> -macports
>
> [NOTE: not pointing to anything]
>
> $ ls -al -macports
> [ lists almost everything in _my_ home directory! ]
>
>
> I think you meant ~ (tilde) there, not - (hyphen). (ls has so many options
> that "-macports" is a valid set of options.)
>
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