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Subject: Null tilde expansions?
From: Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>
Date: 06 Oct 1998 11:16:28 -0700
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Is there any way to make ~notauser not cause an error (similar to the
null globbing option)?

I'd like this to give me the home directories of all the users in group oo_gang

users=(`ypcat group  | awk -F: '/^oo_gang\>/ { printf $4 }' | tr , ' '`)
dirs=~$^users

without first having to eliminate users from $users which no longer
exist (our sysadmins aren't good about eliminating users from groups
when the remove the user account).

Thanks,
Greg