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@ 1996-10-24 9:37 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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From: Zoltan Hidvegi @ 1996-10-24 9:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Duncan Sargeant; +Cc: Zsh workers list
Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> I usually overcome this problem by using $HOME in my scripts. I
> think this is a better way because you can put it in the middle of
> double-quote quoted strings (but not single quotes.)
>
> export MAILPATH="$HOME/mailspool/rusty:$HOME/Mail/z?Zsh mail."
>
> IMHO its a good habit to get into.
>
> better understand parameter expansion??
>
> echo $HOME "$HOME" '$HOME' ~ "~" '~'
>
> /home/wheel/dunc /home/wheel/dunc $HOME /home/wheel/dunc ~ ~
>
>
> PS: what was the rationale behind quoting tildes? Not critising
> it, but this means it isn't a short parameter ... so what is
> it?
Quoting rules are described quite precisely in POSIX which just documents
the usuall shell behaviour. Note that in a strict POSIX shell
export MAILPATH=~/mbox:~/Mail/zsh does not expand the tildes but zsh does
similarily to other shells (but bash/ksh/pdksh probably disables this
expansion when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set). The most portable is
MAILPATH=~/mbox:~/Mail/zsh ; export MAILPATH
About MAILPATH: bash does expand the mailpath component before checking the
file so in bash MAILPATH=~/mbox:~/Mail/zsh" works. However AT&T ksh, pdksh
and zsh does not do that.
Zoltan
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