On 5/4/17 5:00 PM, Ángel wrote:
> No. IMHO the fix would be to expand ~ at assignment time, even when
> quoted, ie. PATH='~/bin' would be equivalent to PATH=~/bin
No. The semantics of expansion in quoted strings are well defined.
Performing tilde expansion on a quoted string in an assignment statement,
even if restricted to PATH, would definitely be a bug.
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