Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 22:26:43 schrieb Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH:
On May 2, 2010, at 05:33 , Limestraël wrote:
Yes, it's weird, but it works! Thanks.
It's normal, actually. "~" is only understood by the shell, so unless the shell is invoked to expand it a program will fail to understand it.
If the default shell is bash and the PATH is set and exported in ~/.bashrc, it should work with '~' unless the string is quoted, shouldn't it? bash expands the tildes when the value is assigned to PATH, I think. That would explain why it's a relatively rare breakage.
bash expands it when you use it within bash, but when it's used within another program this might not be the case (since the PATH is just a String after all). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com