Re: file command bug on windows

On Apr 4, 5:22 pm, solar <solaradmin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 4, 7:25 pm, "Gerald W. Lester" <Gerald.Les...@xxxxxxx> wrote:



solar wrote:
On Mar 30, 12:50 pm, suchenwi <richard.suchenwirth-
bauersa...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 29 Mrz., 20:21, solar <solaradmin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

% file type ~123
user "123" doesn't exist
% file type ~456
user "456" doesn't exist
% cd ~456
user "456" doesn't exist
This has not to do with the file command, but with Tcl's file name
resolution of ~ (as evident from the cd error). If filenames starting
with ~ are allowed in your application, you can sanitize them with
code like this:
% regsub {^~} ~456~78 ./&
./~456~78

Thanks for the solution. That will work...
But I was just wanted to know if "file", "cd", etc. should have been
written
to ignore interpreting  "~dir" as a user's home directory.

No, why would you want to do that -- each user has a valid home directory.

BTW, on most other file systems you can also put a tilde in a file name..
Just like on windows it is very very very rarely put at the beginning of a
file name (one of the common *inx editors, Emacs, puts it at the end of a
file name to indicate a backup file).

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Yes, I agree that every user has a valid home directory. But on
Windows the user's home
directories are not referred to with a leading tilde symbol. That
convention is used
only on Unix'es and maybe other OS's. So I was just wondering if the
relevant commands
should ignore this convention on Windows. Not that its a major problem
though, with
Suchenwi's solution.

Thanks for the reply
--

The fact that ~something is interpreted as a home directory is working
as documented and is useful in windows as well as in Unix. The fact
that your glob example is failing is logged as a bug at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2511011&group_id=10894&atid=110894

Mark
.

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