[openbox] ~me versus /home/meme

Johan Vromans jvromans at squirrel.nl
Tue Aug 25 04:13:56 EDT 2009


Mikael Magnusson <mikachu at gmail.com> writes:

> >  myapp --config=~/.appconfig
> 
> Since that doesn't even work in bash, I think I'm okay.

The point I wanted to make is that whatever you do, there's always
something that may break.

Personally, I think that tilde expansion is meaningfull in interactive
context and should not be used in scripts and files, since there's a
better and more general mechanism available: $HOME.

Aside: The same goes for filename expansion and option abbreviations.

-- Johan


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