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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:01:53 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de