[cs631apue] Question about ~ translation 2

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Sat Nov 22 18:07:31 EST 2014


sshah83 <sshah83 at stevens.edu> wrote:

> the specification (man page) says "~ is translated into that user?s sws  
> directory (ie /home/<user>/sws/ )"
>
> So in the examples you provided shouldn't it be :
>  /~foo/foo/f     <foo's home directory>/sws/foo/f

Correct.  Good catch.

-Jan


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