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From: schinagl@pe.avl.co.at (Hermann Schinagl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A simple csh script question
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 07:47:50 GMT
Organization: Graz University of Technology, Austria
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On 17 Mar 1997 18:18:04 +0000, Gareth McCaughan
<gjm11@dpmms.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>How about:
>
> ls $(~$id) | grep forward
Sorry, does not work:
------------
#!/bin/sh
US=sun_test
HOMEDIR=$(~$US)
echo $HOMEDIR
------------
Output:
~sun_test
and not /disk1_1/users/sun_test
Ciao Hermann
>