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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:32:31 +0200
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> 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.


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