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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Itches with the current rev spec
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:09:03 +0200
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> you might argue that ~<n> normally refers to a /home/<n>, but who uses
> numbers in place of usernames?

~<n> expands to the <n>th element of the dir stack.

Andreas.

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