tilde compleation

tilde compleation

[Jason Zapman II]

in zsh 2.5.03 is there a problem with tilde (~) compleation from within
shell scripts?  Or am I simply doing something moronic?  (entirely
posible.)  What I am doing is running some shell scripts that other people
have written (mostly for ksh) from my zsh shell.  They don't have the line
#!/usr/bin/ksh
in the top, and when they do, things tend to work.

hmmm.  My logic tells me that this should work reguardless of the #! line,
(but if it was something like bash, other things would break)  Or this
could simply be me not knowing the shell I use nearly well enough.  :)

Jason

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Jason Zapman II  TX BA 449  zapman@cc.gatech.edu

Re: tilde compleation

[Zefram]

>in zsh 2.5.03 is there a problem with tilde (~) compleation from within
>shell scripts?  Or am I simply doing something moronic?  (entirely
>posible.)

I think you mean expansion, not completion.

>           What I am doing is running some shell scripts that other people
>have written (mostly for ksh) from my zsh shell.  They don't have the line
>#!/usr/bin/ksh
>in the top, and when they do, things tend to work.

If your shell scripts don't have a #! line, and you're executing (as
opposed to sourcing) them, they will probably be processed by /bin/sh.
If /bin/sh is a Bourne shell, it won't do tilde expansion.

-zefram