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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:55:36 -0700
From: Linda Walsh <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Using 'test' fails when referencing home '~' from bash loop
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Steven Penny wrote:
> From: "Matt D."
>> The following never exits the loop:
>> until test -f "~/file.txt"; do sleep 1 && echo sleep; done; echo done
> 
> This is not an error, or even Cygwin related. With Bash you must now quote "~"
> if you want it to expand.
> 
> Do this 
>   [ -f ~/file.txt ]
> or this
>   [ -f ~'/file.txt' ]
> or this
>   [ -f "$HOME/file.txt" ]
---
She can use the format she is using ... just need to stress _not_ to use
the quotes...

the quotes don't let "~" expansion take place.

so:
      until test -f ~/file.txt ; do sleep 1 && echo sleep; done; echo done


works just fine...


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