[Debian-eeepc-devel] Changes for eeepc-acpi-scripts

[Eric Cooper]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:08:10PM +0200, Miek Gieben wrote:
> Any reason why ~$user cannot be used?

Because it's not expanded:

$ echo $USER
ecc
$ ls ~$USER
ls: cannot access ~ecc: No such file or directory

But you could use
    $(eval echo ~$USER)

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