>>>>> "Matthieu" == Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> writes:
Matthieu> C does not have tilde expansion or "eval", but it has "system()":
Matthieu> int main () {
Matthieu> system("~/bin/scripts/moy-editor.sh foo.txt");
Matthieu> }
Matthieu> works as you'd expect.
And that's because it forks a /bin/sh to process that. And your modern
/bin/sh apparently understands tilde expansion. *that* wouldn't have worked
back when /bin/sh was really the bourne shell and not some cheap over-featured
(read "GNU") clone.
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