Re: Playing with code found on Perlmonks

[skx]

in reply to Playing with code found on Perlmonks

This could be rewritten:

    fname=`echo $fname|sed 's/~/\/home\/ben/g'`

Perhaps:

    fname=`echo $fname|perl -pe "s#~#$HOME#g"`

[oko1]

Oh - I hadn't realized we were golfing. In Unix, as in Perl, TMTOWTDI.

# Bourne shell and derivatives
fname=`eval echo $fname`
# Modern shells (e.g., Bash)
fname=${fname/\~/$HOME}

Your turn, m'sieu? :)