On 1/23/25 9:15 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
But I don't see anything in the "Tilde Expansion" section that documents the behavior of a literal '~' in $PATH.
It remains undocumented.
I suggest it would be better to document the behavior, since I imagine
it's fairly easy to run into it accidentally. For example, something like
PATH="~/bin:$PATH"
will trigger the behavior.
What do you think a user expects when they do something like this? How
many instances of this do you think exist out there? If you're going to
use something nonsensical like that, my guess is more people want the bash
behavior than not, as bad an idea as it is.
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