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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:37:27 -0800
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:24:47 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>> it cannot reasonably be anything other than replacement by $HOME,
>>> which is the actual behavior that can be inferred from experiments.

I didn't write the quoted text; Kaz did.

> According to my experiments, a “~” in a $PATH component not immediately 
> followed by a username is expanded, not to $HOME, but to the home 
> directory associated with the current user ID.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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