Re: Tilde expansion during command search

[Eric Blake]

On 07/23/2014 08:08 AM, lolilolicon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Might be worth asking the POSIX folks if it is allowed by POSIX.  What
>> do other shells do?
> 
>>From this page: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html
> 
>     Note that the tildes are expanded during the assignment to PATH, not
>     when PATH is accessed during command search.

No, it wasn't.  Re-read the original post:

    PATH=\~/tmpdir
    typeset -p PATH

which produced this output:

    declare -x PATH="~/tmpdir"

which proves that ~ was not expanded in the assignment to PATH, but only
in the use of PATH.

I'm strongly in favor of keeping bash's behavior when in bash mode, but
for 'set -o posix', I worry that bash differing from other shells may
mean bash is not compliant with POSIX.

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