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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh users list)
Subject: Re: Mailpath notification message
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:11:53 +0200
In-reply-to: "Duncan Sargeant"'s message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:41:16 MET." <199610240841.QAA00731@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> PS: what was the rationale behind quoting tildes?  Not critising
>     it, but this means it isn't a short parameter ... so what is
>     it?

Since it operates on filenames, it's a bit more like globbing than
like parameters, though it's not quite that either --- you can quote ~
just like you can quote *.  I think POSIX has some words on the
subject so that the current semantics is unlikely to change.

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- Re: Mailpath notification message
  - From: Duncan Sargeant

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