On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > But we are talking about the case where ~ IS quoted during > the assignment, and only bash then re-expands it during path lookup.
That's my point. Let me try quoting this again, Note that the tildes are expanded during the assignment to PATH, _not when PATH is accessed during command search._ in which I was trying to imply that, Bash *does* expand the tildes _when PATH is accessed during command search._