On Wed 23 Jul 2014 08:51:19 Dan Douglas wrote: > On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 09:28:02 AM you wrote: > > On 7/23/14, 8:22 AM, Dan Douglas wrote: > > > Hi, from this discussion: > > > > > > https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/195#issuecomment-49678200 > > > > > > I can't find any reference that says substituting a literal tilde in > > > PATH > > > should occur during command search. > > > > Bash has always done this, even back to the pre-version 1 days, and I > > don't > > see any reason to change it now. > > The only concerns I can think of are inconsistency with programs that use > execvp(), or possibly double-expansion in the event of a user name or any > path containing ~.
how so ? execvp doesn't do tilde expansion. only the shell does, and it does it once at assignment. -mike
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