Re: [Erlyaws-list] More on tidle username expansion

[Erik P. <er...@at...>]

Actually, the first ":" can't be used, since username
is the first field.  It could be "^" instead, which
should work will all greps for the beginning.

I should have quickly cat'ed the /etc/passwd file
before hastily writing my email.

--erikp--

Erik Pearson wrote:

>
> But the grep isn't selective enough.  On my system, it
> will expand ~rikp the same as ~erikp.  It seems you'd
> want ":" ++ User ++ ":"