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From: Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:26:57 +0000
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Axel Reichert wrote:

> tilde expansion is not, AFAIK, included in POSIX

Incorrect.  See XCU 2.6.1 Tilde Expansion, which includes the following:

    In an assignment (see XBD Section 4.26), multiple tilde-prefixes
    can be used: one at the beginning of the word (that is, following
    the <equals-sign> of the assignment), or one following any unquoted
    <colon>, or both.

The reason this is there is for things like PATH=~/bin:~/sbin:/bin:...

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Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>