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From:   Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To:     Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
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On Feb 18 2021, Chris Torek wrote:

> Just a small point here:
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 2:17 PM Jan “Khardix” Staněk <khardix@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, unless I'm missing something, shouldn't the tilde above be
>> expanded by the shell before actually being passed as argument?
>
> Maybe.  Some shells do and some don't:
>
> $ echo foo=~/foo
> foo=~/foo
>
> bash$ echo foo=~/foo
> foo=/home/torek/foo

But:

$ echo --foo=~/foo
--foo=~/foo

Andreas.

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