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Re: DIRSTACK[0] contains literal "~"

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On 7/12/18 7:38 PM, jeremy.richards@ngc.com wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>     I noticed some strange behavior in the DIRSTACK variable (used in pushd/popd). 
>     `declare -p DIRSTACK`
>     shows the list of current directories on the stack, as expected. ${DIRSTACK[@]:1} show correctly expanded paths, i.e., “pushd ~/Jenkins” will correctly store "/home/jeremy/jenkins"
>     However, ${DIRSTACK[0]} does NOT have this behavior, and will encode a literal tilde, e.g., "~/jenkins"

Thanks for the report. This was fixed last October as the result of

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-10/msg00110.html

and the fix is in bash-5.0-alpha.


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