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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:00:24 +0100
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On 26.01.2025 20:01, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2025-01-26, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> you don't want to miss. - So Bash users, if they don't want to get
>> bitten in a subtle way, are probably advised to be pointed out to
>> that behavior, or, as suggested by others already, not to use tilde
>> at all with PATH in Bash.
> 
> That's a bizarre recommendation.  Approximately all uses of tilde
> in PATH are variants of PATH=~/bin:$PATH, which are expanded on
> assignment in bash as in other sh-type shells.

Yes, to both. (Only that "recommendation" should have been put in
quotes; as it should have got obvious what I think about that.)

Janis