On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Might be worth asking the POSIX folks if it is allowed by POSIX. What > do other shells do?
>From this page: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/chap2.html Note that the tildes are expanded during the assignment to PATH, not when PATH is accessed during command search. (resent with proper CC)