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On Jan 31, 2007, at 15:17 , Christos Zoulas wrote:

> What is the meaning of `~'? I presume that you would like `~' to
> mean "the user's home directory as specified in /etc/passwd (pw_dir)".
> Well, this is not exactly right. The `~' first got a special meaning
> when it became part of the globbing special characters in csh(1)
> meaning the current location of the home directory (from the value of
> $HOME). So still today:
>
> % set home=/var/tmp	# csh mirrors $home -> $HOME
> % echo $HOME
> /var/tmp
> % cd ~
> % pwd
> /var/tmp
>
> So even if the patch is reversed, the manual page needs to be  
> corrected.

Short of replacing all occurrences of ~/... with <home_dir> or  
something, maybe this will suffice:

RCS file: /cvsroot/src/crypto/dist/ssh/ssh.1,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.35 ssh.1
--- ssh.1       28 Sep 2006 21:22:15 -0000      1.35
+++ ssh.1       31 Jan 2007 23:22:47 -0000
@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@
is specified,
it is executed on the remote host instead of a login shell.
.Pp
+Note that the tilde (~) character used in pathnames below is replaced
+with the user's home directory, not the content of $HOME.
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>
> christos
>
>

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