Set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then PATH="~/bin:${PATH}" fi
Hmm, i'm not 100% percent sure, but is this supposed to work in general? I don't think that all programs that use the PATH varible are supposed to interpret ~ correctly.
Instead, the shell usually substitutes ~ or ~user. Look at this the output of these commands: echo ~ echo "~"
This is probably common knowledge, but I learned last night that sh never expands ~. Under sh, the two lines above yield the same output, simply ~.
So my conclusion was to never rely on ~ in scripts or variables. (Unless something is broken in my setup?)
Cheers, Rob
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