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

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Joerg Pernfuss wrote:

> 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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Unfortunately the target system (now) for the documentation is suse Linux, and I don't have any control over what the company chooses for its Unix OS in the future. So to reduce rewriting the documentation in the future I thought it'd be better to seek out the common denominator in Unix shells.

Besides, if people are smart enough (and most people are here), they can translate $HOME to ~ :).

-Garrett