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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:42:15 +0100
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On 26.01.2025 03:07, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
>> On 24.01.2025 23:00, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>[...]
>>
>> I mean that a shell should behave consistently. (I think Bash does
>> not in the given case.)
> 
> Consistently with what?  Bash consistently expands literal '~'s in
> $PATH, and consistently disables that expansion in POSIX mode.

I think I have (already repeatedly) expanded on that, so let me just
enumerate some obvious aspects sparsely...
- expanding tilde once at dedicated places vs. twice
- consistency with other expansions (not done twice), e.g. '$HOME'
- (and if you accept that) consistency with the other shells

(Any single inconsistency is IMO already worthwhile to be critically
discussed.)

Janis

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