Questions tagged [tilde]
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How to find files with find tool in system path ($PATH)? Or alternatively, How to specify starting-point directory for find as an expression?
For example, I want to find all symlinks that reference to particular binary in all directories that belong to system $PATH.
This can be successfully achieved with manual specification of all ...
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Accents don't work for me in Google Chrome
The accent keys, both normal and the inverted tilde, do not work for me in Google Chrome.
I don't know how to solve it, among other things, I read that some program may be interfering, but I don't ...
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Incorrect folder name created when using cp command in bash [closed]
I would like to copy a file from one location to another. When I use the cp command in a terminal it works well, for example I use the following command:
cp -r projects/Test/ projects/Personal/
This ...
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Ubuntu doesn't translate /home/testuser to ~
In Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, if I log in with the credentials of the LDAP user testuser, in several different programs the path of the $HOME directory is not replaced by ~ (as instead it happens for local ...
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Bash script variable syntax: with some commands it works, with others it does not [duplicate]
I do not understand the behaviour of this variable:
SSH_CONFIG_FILE="~/.ssh/config"
echo $SSH_CONFIG_FILE
ls -l $SSH_CONFIG_FILE
ls -l ~/.ssh/config
This is the output:
~/.ssh/config
ls: ...
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How does the tilde expansion work within a shell variable?
I came across something funny when testing my script.
I can ls my directory from the shell manually if I run
$ ls ~/db_backups/
test1 test2
$
However, if I assign a shell variable a dir location as ...
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Tilde not returning home directory
After sudo command to change user, Tilde (~) not returning current user's home directory but returning previous login user's home directory. I needed to expand with echo ~USERNAME but I need to make ...
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Tilde expansion vs. variables in Bash
Please, consider the following snippet:
$ export xx=foo
$ sudo bash -c 'echo $xx ~'
/root
Which is ok. We can't see xx.
However, if I expose it:
$ sudo -E bash -c 'echo $xx ~'
foo /home/xropi
Though ...
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Simple variable assignment: Tilde does not expand in quotes [duplicate]
I have the following expression that is giving an error, but I am unable to figure out the problem.
rcutils_path="~/Admir/bin/gungadin-1.0/rcutils"
# Re-map modifier keys for dvorak ...
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Command not found in zsh, but found in bash
I'm using zsh on ubuntu and I created a symlink for bat as so:
ln -s /usr/bin/batcat /home/user_name/.local/bin/bat
hitting ls -l from ~/.local/bin shows:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tux tux 15 May 19 13:47 ...
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How to view ~ (tilde) instead of home directory in bash?
I've changed my home directory from /home/alessandro to /mnt/c/Users/aless/Documents/uni/labcalc (I am using debian in WSL so /mnt/c is C:\ in windows). When I type cd ~ it correctly goes to my new ...
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Multiple files with the same name and a tilde are written while editing a file with gvim
I am under fedora 29. I edit my files with gvim and since a few days, one of them appears multiple times, renamed with an additional letter and tilde. The directory looks like this :
sf1.pdf sf1....
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Where is cd ~ located on Ubuntu?
What is the absolute path of cd ~ on Ubuntu?
Trying to find out where this dir is located?
For example:
/home
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The tilde key ("~") combination doesn't show up in bash
I am using an Acer Swift One laptop with Windows 10. The keyboard is a standard German keyboard.
I downloaded bash today from git-scm.com/download/win and tried some commands. For some reason bash ...
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Why tilde (~) doesn't expand when used with CLI argument starting with dash?
I lost a couple of hours trying to run VNC server (x0vncserver) and the client refused to connect with weird message that
No password configured for VNC Auth
The server also prints this error
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