Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:32:31 +0200 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <1094385246.5803.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <6.1.2.0.1.20040926005459.02810cb0@mail.ros.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508a5865.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.1.20040926005459.02810cb0@mail.ros.com.au> X-IsSubscribed: yes > Set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then > PATH="~/bin:${PATH}" > fi Hmm, i'm not 100% percent sure, but is this supposed to work in general? I don't think that all programs that use the PATH varible are supposed to interpret ~ correctly. Instead, the shell usually substitutes ~ or ~user. Look at this the output of these commands: echo ~ echo "~" I would suggest to use PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" or even PATH="$(echo -n ~)/bin:$PATH" instead of your line. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/