On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:10:45PM +0000, kevin lyda wrote:
> > Given this little script called homedir
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo ~$1
>> eval echo ~$1
This works, and in fact will do exactly what I want with
HOMEDIR=`eval echo ~$1`
What bugs me is that I thought of eval, and I tried it, and it didn't work -
buggered if I can remember what I did wrong. Anyway, script is now written
and working using awk, and for a script which will be run only occassionally
you may be damn sure it's staying the way it it. But I'm glad to have got
the oddity out of the way (only, of course, it's not an oddity at all)
Regards,
Niall
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