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Re: [Bug-wget] Tilde expansion not carried out in file_cmd
From: |
Ángel González |
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Re: [Bug-wget] Tilde expansion not carried out in file_cmd |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:44:45 +0100 |
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Thunderbird |
On 14/03/13 20:15, Darshit Shah wrote:
> In fact I wrote this to specifically expand command line options, since
> bash did not expand the tilde in the filename I gave through the
> command line.
> Here is the output I got.
>
> $ wget --post-file=~/vimrc www.example.com
>> --2013-03-15 00:31:54-- http://www.example.com/
>> POST data file ‘~/vimrc’ missing: No such file or directory
>>
> In case you say, that the shell should have handled this, I guess it's an
> issue with bash, and I must work upstream to resolve it.
The shell bash only expands ~ when it's preceded by whitespace. Try
wget --post-file ~/vimrc www.example.com
As tilde expansion works the same for all programs, I don't think it should be
changed in wget (although I also consider unlikely that bash would change it).