From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system
Simon Slavin <
slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote in comp.sys.mac.system:
In article <bfj1kk$qqj$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel) wrote:
The tilde "~" is the highest printable ASCII character (126).
Don't use tildes in filenames under OS X. If the filename ever
gets handled as a URL there's a chance that the tilde will be
interpreted as referring to your home directory.
More importantly, some shells (those with csh ancestry) will interpret
"~xyz" as the home directory of user "xyz". A single tilde will be
the home directory of the user running the process. A tilde in the
middle of a string is safe, but probably also better avoided.
In a web context, things can be configured so that "~xyz" can point
to anything at all, not necessarily a user's home directory. At least
under apache it can.
Anno
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