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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:06:26 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

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.