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To: Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Null tilde expansions? 
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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
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On Oct 7, 10:50am, Greg Badros wrote:
} Subject: Re: Null tilde expansions?
}
} > Yes, you're right.  Or just ${dirs##~*}, in which the ~ is not expanded
} > in the first place.
} 
} Why does the ~ not get expanded?  This doesn't work in 3.1.4 or 3.0.x
} for me.  I need to escape the ~ with a backslash here, too.

% echo $dirs
/home/user2/pws ~foobar
% unsetopt extendedglob
% echo ${dirs##~*}     
/home/user2/pws
% setopt extendedglob
% echo ${dirs##~*}   
/home/user2/pws ~foobar

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