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Re: tilde compleation

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From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zapman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jason Zapman II)
Subject: Re: tilde compleation
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 19:31:01 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199605181809.OAA22141@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Jason Zapman II" at May 18, 96 02:09:00 pm

>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

References:
- tilde compleation
  - From: Jason Zapman II

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