Re: Tilde expansion during command search

[Dan Douglas]

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 ~.

You're probably right in that it's not super critical if it hasn't caused 
problems so far.

-- 
Dan Douglas