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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ~ expansion in printf Post 302258737 by geekosaur on Saturday 15th of November 2008 04:41:25 PM
Old 11-15-2008
Code:
~

is only guaranteed to work in interactive shells (and not even then if it's the old Bourne shell as on Solaris).
Code:
$HOME

is the correct portable way to refer to your home directory.
 

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