> On Feb 14, 2019, at 5:41 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > 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.)
It would not appear that you do. You asked why a Cygwin shell would be a prerequisite. That's exactly why a Cygwin shell is a prerequisite—*because it's the Cygwin shell that does the expansion.* The only way to get the expansion is through a Cygwin shell. Here, you say "forget about the ~ character." We can't "forget" about the tilde. This whole conversation is about the tilde, specifically tilde expansion. You're not going to get tilde expansion outside of a Cygwin shell. *Because it's the Cygwin shell that does the expansion.* -- 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
