Follow-up Comment #6, bug #65804 (group findutils):
[comment #5 comment #5:]
> Wasn't aware that "~/bin" is not posix conform... it was just shorter :)
It's the quoting that's the problem. In a POSIX-conforming shell you can use ~
in PATH assignments, as long as you don't quote it. Then the shell assigns the
expanded value to PATH.
$ PATH="/bin:~/bin"; echo "$PATH"
/bin:~/bin
$ PATH=/bin:~/bin; echo "$PATH"
/bin:/home/geoff/bin
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