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Do we have to worry about directories being entered using the special unix symbol ~ (as in ~lallip/)?

April 26, 2017Directories special symbol Unix worry

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Do we have to worry about directories being entered using the special unix symbol ~ (as in ~lallip/)?

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No. ~, ?, and * are all special Unix symbols. They only make sense to Perl if you pass them through the glob() function, which we haven’t talked about yet. For this assignment, you may presume only absolute or relative directory names will be given.