Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 3. If I run gnucash like "./gnucash ~/data/thirdtry.xac" and there is
> no such file, I get an error dialog which says, "the file
> /home/rob/data/thirdtry.xac could not be found".
>
> a. why doesn't it say, "the file ~/data/thirdtry.xac could not be
> found"?
Actually, what's going on here is that the shell expands
"~/data/thirdtry.xac" to "/home/rob/data/thirdtry.xac" before
gnucash is even run. in other words, '~' is a shell syntactic
sugar, and the application never actually sees it.
-derek
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