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
