Steven Penny wrote:
From: "Matt D."
The following never exits the loop:
until test -f "~/file.txt"; do sleep 1 && echo sleep; done; echo done
This is not an error, or even Cygwin related. With Bash you must now quote "~"
if you want it to expand.
Do this
[ -f ~/file.txt ]
or this
[ -f ~'/file.txt' ]
or this
[ -f "$HOME/file.txt" ]
---
She can use the format she is using ... just need to stress _not_ to use
the quotes...
the quotes don't let "~" expansion take place.
so:
until test -f ~/file.txt ; do sleep 1 && echo sleep; done; echo done
works just fine...
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