On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:32 PM Vince Rice wrote: > I didn't suggest everyone did. But people who want tilde expansion do, > because it's > the shell that is responsible for tilde expansion. > ... > No, it isn't "oddly" absent. As has been said repeatedly in this thread, > tilde expansion > is the responsibility of the shell. Cygwin has nothing to do with it. The > *shell* does > it. > ... > Because, repeat after me, IT'S THE SHELL THAT DOES THE EXPANSION!
(?) I understand that the shell does ~ expansion. I am asking for a way to get that particular path (forget about the ~ character for the time being) without needing to invoke a Cygwin shell in the first place. (That was the whole point of the request.) Regards, Bill -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
