From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:57:53 GMT
Subject: Re: git-send-email: smtpserver in $HOME
Message-ID: <878s7lzg6m.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAPx1Gvf1pXCp9YVQSQ1_-w3-A8qYZD7tsFV80njsXD-+Jap6Xw@mail.gmail.com>

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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