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From: Jean-Michel Rouet <rouet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: username begining with a digit
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:05:48 +0100
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I'm running zsh 2.5.03, and apparently I run into troubles when trying to
expand usernames beggining with a digit.
Is this problem already known ? Are there any workarounds ?


rouet@neptune ~>grep 3DAO /etc/passwd | cut -f6 -d:
/projects/3DAO
rouet@neptune ~>echo $VERSION
zsh 2.5.03
rouet@neptune ~>cd ~3DAO
cd: no such file or directory: ~3DAO
rouet@neptune ~>echo ~3DAO
~3DAO
rouet@neptune ~>echo ~
/users/rouet


JM

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