[Tcsh] Filename substitution test: ~ vs ~user vs $HOME

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Wed May 15 12:14:01 UTC 2019


Setting $HOME can affect the outcome of the tests; this should not be the case.
Resetting it to what it usually is (the home directory from the passwd file) is the
logical thing to do.

christos

> On May 15, 2019, at 5:12 AM, Leonardo Taccari <iamleot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Christos,
> 
> Christos Zoulas writes:
>> Still, it is not right... I committed a fix to reset $HOME before each of the affected tests.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Just out of curiosity, can you please elaborate what is not right?
> (the expansion of ~, ~user and $HOME when HOME environment variable
> is set AFAIK is the same also in other shells, i.e. ~/$HOME and
> ~\$user can get expanded to something different)
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