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Re: Filename Expansion

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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
To: limited time <burnermail4now@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Filename Expansion
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 21:40:06 +0200
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/30086>
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On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 9:10 PM limited time <burnermail4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The documentation says :-
>
> Each word is checked to see if it begins with an unquoted ‘~’. If it does, then the word up to a ‘/’, or the end of the word if there is no ‘/’, is checked to see if it can be substituted in one of the ways described here. If so, then the ‘~’ and the checked portion are replaced with the appropriate substitute value.
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> A ‘~’ by itself is replaced by the value of $HOME.
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> ------
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> It appears that a ~ if followed by a quoted character only expands if that character is ‘/‘. And no expansion occurs if tilde is immediately followed by @,#,%,=,^… quoted or unquoted.
>
> Can someone confirm what’s going on here ? Thanks.

This is what the documentation you quoted says will happen, and is the
correct behavior.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

References:
- Filename Expansion
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