Re: Playing with code found on Perlmonks

This could be rewritten:

    fname=`echo $fname|sed 's/~/\/home\/ben/g'`
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Perhaps:

    fname=`echo $fname|perl -pe "s#~#$HOME#g"`
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Steve
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Re^2: Playing with code found on Perlmonks by oko1 (Deacon) on Apr 17, 2008 at 00:01 UTC
Oh - I hadn't realized we were golfing. In Unix, as in Perl, TMTOWTDI. # Bourne shell and derivatives fname=`eval echo $fname` # Modern shells (e.g., Bash) fname=${fname/\~/$HOME} [download] Your turn, m'sieu? :) -- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -- HG Wells	[reply] [d/l]