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| From: | John Kearney |
| Subject: | printf "%q" "~" not escaped? |
| Date: | Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:47:35 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 |
Bash Version: 4.2 Patch Level: 10 Release Status: release Description: printf "%q" "~" not escaped? which means that this eval echo $(printf "%q" "~") results in your home path not a ~ unlike eval echo $(printf "%q" "*") as far as I can see its the only character that isn't treated as I expected.
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