On Mon, 25 May 2009 16:14:21 -0500, vitamin wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> OK, thanks! And a dumb question, just in case. My wine is in / >> home/btth -- so can I just c&p the above, tilde and all? Or do I need >> to spell out my home directory? > > "~" tilde is a standard shell expansion for a home directory. If you > haven't move your WINEPREFIX (default ~/.wine) then you can copy and > paste those commands as-is, replacing the "new_box" of course. > > What that means, when you use "~" anywhere in the path, shell > automatically replaces (expands) it with the full path of your home > directory. Unless of course the path is quoted. Then you should use > $HOME instead. Ex: > > Code: > $echo ~ > /home/vitaliy > $echo "~" > ~ > $echo "$HOME" > /home/vitaliy > $echo '$HOME' > $HOME Thanks! I always get confused about that -- incipient senescense, I suppose ... It worked nicely -- except for my waypoints, which seem to've gotten left behind, or maybe buried. I tried to transfer them in afresh from a GPS, and failed. Maybe I can locate that rpm that had "garmin" in it; it might not've gotten onto the T42 ... Thanks again! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
