Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:54:59 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Mike Murphree <n4cnw@knology.net>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Differences in jdk1.2.2-beta? Message-ID: <15014.30195.431085.1919@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20010307185144.A1208@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: <01030711225200.40551@n4cnw.dyndns.org> <20010307184055.A1129@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <15014.29676.54843.83693@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010307185144.A1208@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>
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> > > Try running this command:
> > >
> > > ${JAVA_HOME}/java \
> > > -cp ~/jstreet/innoval.jar:~/jstreet/HotJavaBean.jar \
> > > innoval.mailer.jstreet
> >
> > I don't believe 'java' expands ~ paths, so the user will either have to
> > use full pathnames (ie; /home/mike/jstreet/innoval/jar') or relative
> > paths and make sure that the program is always run from the same
> > directory (ie; ./jstreet/innoval.jar).
>
> No, 'java' doesn't, but the shell does. Try to execute this:
>
> echo ~
>
> This gives me, on bash:
>
> /home/ernst
>
> I tested this on 'sh' and 'tcsh' too, both work the same as bash in this
> respect.
I know the shell does, but does the expansion occur in the middle of the
argument, ie; '.....:~/.....' I don't believe it does, but I could be
wrong. I know that we had some problems with this in our Makefiles, but
in retrospect, make uses /bin/sh, which does not do expansion.
Nate
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