RE: A problem with path to IFS file

A coworker is trying to use his home directory to store a file in
preparation for attaching it to an email. His frustration at this

time

is that when he executes the command the MAIL command is erroring out
with a 'No such path or directory'. I am wondering if a tilde (~)
should be used. Does the tilde (~) mean the same thing from the

AS/400

environment as it does in the QSH environment?

Thanks in advance.

Marvin

Yes. Tilde has special significance when appearing at the beginning of the
path (not preceded by a slash). In that case, it means "my home." For
example, regardless of your current directory, here is a way to get a
listing of the files in your home directory:

ls -l ~

Or if you want to copy a file named myfile from your home directory to the
current directory with name newfile, you could do:

cp ~/myfile ./newfile


If you have a file named ~abc, you should be able to work with it. Likewise
a~bc. So in summary, you'd be in trouble if you created a directory whose
name is the tilde character alone. (But I'll bet you cannot create a
directory by that name.)

So. What is the filename, what is the problem, and what are the error
messages. "having trouble" isn't usually technical enough for problem
resolution.

Dennis Lovelady
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