[OT] Does "~" always point to $HOME?

[Joerg Pernfuss]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:14 +0100
Karol Kwiatkowski <karol.kwiat at gmail.com> wrote:

> > While that's true for most shells, bash, csh, tcsh, etc., it
> > doesn't work on true Bourne /bin/sh shells (e.g. SCO OpenServer
> > 5.0.6a and earlier and probably others with Bell Labs ancestors).
> 
> Not sure what I'm missing, is FreeBSD's /bin/sh shell not "true"
> Bourne Shell? Was it extended in some way from traditional one?

FreeBSD /bin/sh is actually an ash, which roughly translates into
a POSIX shell with a few additions that do not break compatibility.
At least that is how I understood it.

	Joerg
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