Re: ~ substitution

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On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, sergio wrote:

> But when I type 'echo h=~' (or h=~sergio, or h=~/some/path) I get 'h=~'. 
> sh does the same, and bash will out 'h=/home/sergio'.
>
> How to control this? Why this may be bad? May be this is a bug?
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echo foo=${:-~}
foo=/home/atom


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