10-06-2008
Which shell are you using?
Assuming there is an account in passwd file called zzzdba, and a directory under the user's home directory called comps, and you have permissions to "cd" to that directory.
This behaviour is a feature of ksh (see man pages). Tilde substitution only works on unquoted strings.
This works:
cd ~myname
This doesn't work:
cd "~myname"
In your case this should work.
COMPBD=~zzzdba/comps
cd ${COMPBD}
You can check the substitution.
echo "${COMPDB}"
If it still doesn't work maybe you need to force ksh (or a shell which supports tilde substitution) on the very first line of your script.
#!/bin/ksh
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NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs
SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script
DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library.
atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter-
preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not
use any non-standard extensions.
The following options are available:
-s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL.
ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes.
ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes.
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a
specific interpreter.
EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with:
#! /usr/bin/env atf-sh
Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode
the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter:
#! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash
ENVIRONMENT
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SEE ALSO
atf-sh(3)
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