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 accident
On 1/23/25 6:37 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
Bash Version: 5.2
Patch Level: 32
Release Status: release
Description:
A literal '~' or other tilde-prefix at the beginning of an
element of $PATH is expanded when a command is executed
from the bash prompt. This is undocumented and inco
On Fri 2025-01-24 11:45:22 EST, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 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.
Then I suggest that the phrase "as described above u
