Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-7
Severity: normal

According to POSIX[0], “the pathname resulting from tilde expansion shall be
treated as if quoted to prevent it being altered by field splitting and
pathname expansion.” However:

$ bash -c 'HOME="foo bar"; printf "<%s> " ~; echo'
<foo bar>

$ dash -c 'HOME="foo bar"; printf "<%s> " ~; echo'
<foo> <bar>


[0] 
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_01


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii  debianutils                   3.4.1      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                          1.15.8.5   Debian package management system
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

--
Jakub Wilk

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