On 07/23/2014 08:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/23/2014 08:08 AM, lolilolicon wrote:
>> >From this page: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html >> >> Note that the tildes are expanded during the assignment to PATH, not >> when PATH is accessed during command search. > > No, it wasn't. Re-read the original post: > > PATH=\~/tmpdir The reference you were quoting used this example: PATH=~hlj/bin:~dwc/bin:$PATH where ~ is unquoted in the assignment, and therefore expanded during the assignment. But we are talking about the case where ~ IS quoted during the assignment, and only bash then re-expands it during path lookup. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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