two expansions of tilde

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi all,

Here is something I just found out that really surprised me. In what 
follows I will spell the names of a couple of punctuation marks to 
accommodate the punctuation impaired settings of some speakup 
configuration settings.

I discovered that both of the following constructions are valid uses of 
the tilde in forming absolute path names to a file:

tilde slash directory slash filename

and

tilde username slash directory slash filename

They both provide access to the file, assuming you are logged in as the 
user indicated. However, the second form provides that access no matter 
what user you are currently, assuming permissions do not prevent it.

I suppose this is one of those things everybody else knew all along, but 
I just found it out and thought it might be worth sharing.

Chuck


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