In article <6DB06CA9-B034-42A3-9AC6-EE1BA6C6B609@planix.com>,
Andreas Wrede  <andreas@planix.com> wrote:
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>On Jan 31, 2007, at 15:17 , Christos Zoulas wrote:
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>> 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.
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>Short of replacing all occurrences of ~/... with <home_dir> or  
>something, maybe this will suffice:
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>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.
>+.Pp
>The options are as follows:
>.Bl -tag -width Ds
>.It Fl 1

Yes, I think that it will suffice too.

christos