Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Bash is even weirder than you might think. Try this: > > $ echo ~/foo > /home/peff/foo > > $ echo arg=~/foo > arg=/home/peff/foo > > $ echo --arg=~/foo > --arg=~/foo Bash expands all arguments that look like variable assignments. That lets you write "export arg=~/foo" even though a POSIX shell wouldn't tilde expand it. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html