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Need working examples of using tilde expansion immediately following the : (colon) sign in variable assignment
In the Bash manual, it is written about the tilde expansion: Each variable assignment is checked for unquoted tilde-prefixes immediately following a ‘:’ or the first ‘=’. Read the Bash manual about ...
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How to find files with find tool in system path ($PATH)? Or alternatively, How to specify starting-point directory for find as an expression?
For example, I want to find all symlinks that reference to particular binary in all directories that belong to system $PATH. This can be successfully achieved with manual specification of all ...
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Accents don't work for me in Google Chrome
The accent keys, both normal and the inverted tilde, do not work for me in Google Chrome. I don't know how to solve it, among other things, I read that some program may be interfering, but I don't ...
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Incorrect folder name created when using cp command in bash [closed]
I would like to copy a file from one location to another. When I use the cp command in a terminal it works well, for example I use the following command: cp -r projects/Test/ projects/Personal/ This ...
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Ubuntu doesn't translate /home/testuser to ~
In Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, if I log in with the credentials of the LDAP user testuser, in several different programs the path of the $HOME directory is not replaced by ~ (as instead it happens for local ...
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Bash script variable syntax: with some commands it works, with others it does not [duplicate]
I do not understand the behaviour of this variable: SSH_CONFIG_FILE="~/.ssh/config" echo $SSH_CONFIG_FILE ls -l $SSH_CONFIG_FILE ls -l ~/.ssh/config This is the output: ~/.ssh/config ls: ...
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How does the tilde expansion work within a shell variable?
I came across something funny when testing my script. I can ls my directory from the shell manually if I run $ ls ~/db_backups/ test1 test2 $ However, if I assign a shell variable a dir location as ...
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Tilde not returning home directory
After sudo command to change user, Tilde (~) not returning current user's home directory but returning previous login user's home directory. I needed to expand with echo ~USERNAME but I need to make ...
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Tilde expansion vs. variables in Bash
Please, consider the following snippet: $ export xx=foo $ sudo bash -c 'echo $xx ~' /root Which is ok. We can't see xx. However, if I expose it: $ sudo -E bash -c 'echo $xx ~' foo /home/xropi Though ...
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Simple variable assignment: Tilde does not expand in quotes [duplicate]
I have the following expression that is giving an error, but I am unable to figure out the problem. rcutils_path="~/Admir/bin/gungadin-1.0/rcutils" # Re-map modifier keys for dvorak ...
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Command not found in zsh, but found in bash
I'm using zsh on ubuntu and I created a symlink for bat as so: ln -s /usr/bin/batcat /home/user_name/.local/bin/bat hitting ls -l from ~/.local/bin shows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 tux tux 15 May 19 13:47 ...
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How to view ~ (tilde) instead of home directory in bash?
I've changed my home directory from /home/alessandro to /mnt/c/Users/aless/Documents/uni/labcalc (I am using debian in WSL so /mnt/c is C:\ in windows). When I type cd ~ it correctly goes to my new ...
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Multiple files with the same name and a tilde are written while editing a file with gvim
I am under fedora 29. I edit my files with gvim and since a few days, one of them appears multiple times, renamed with an additional letter and tilde. The directory looks like this : sf1.pdf sf1....
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Where is cd ~ located on Ubuntu?
What is the absolute path of cd ~ on Ubuntu? Trying to find out where this dir is located? For example: /home
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The tilde key generates "k", not "~"
I am using an Acer Swift One laptop with Windows 10. The keyboard is a standard German keyboard. I downloaded bash today from git-scm.com/download/win and tried some commands. For some reason bash ...
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