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Re: Tilde expansion during command search
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Tilde expansion during command search |
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Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:43:49 -0600 |
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On 07/23/2014 08:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/23/2014 08:08 AM, lolilolicon wrote:
>> >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
The reference you were quoting used this example:
PATH=~hlj/bin:~dwc/bin:$PATH
where ~ is unquoted in the assignment, and therefore expanded during the
assignment. But we are talking about the case where ~ IS quoted during
the assignment, and only bash then re-expands it during path lookup.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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