diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index a491b25abe8..3921b175d8b 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2013-05-30  Hafiz Abid Qadeer  <abidh@codesourcery.com>
+
+	* inferior.c (top level): Include tilde.h.
+	(add_inferior_command): Call tilde_expand on the value of 'exec'
+	argument.
+
 2013-05-30  Pedro Alves  <pedro@codesourcery.com>
 	    Yao Qi  <yao@codesourcery.com>
 
diff --git a/gdb/inferior.c b/gdb/inferior.c
index ed6b6260b33..b9e9a8d9dbc 100644
--- a/gdb/inferior.c
+++ b/gdb/inferior.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include "continuations.h"
 #include "arch-utils.h"
 #include "target-descriptions.h"
+#include "readline/tilde.h"
 
 void _initialize_inferiors (void);
 
@@ -850,7 +851,8 @@ add_inferior_command (char *args, int from_tty)
 		  ++argv;
 		  if (!*argv)
 		    error (_("No argument to -exec"));
-		  exec = *argv;
+		  exec = tilde_expand (*argv);
+		  make_cleanup (xfree, exec);
 		}
 	    }
 	  else