I'm inclined to agree with the original bug reporter. Either that or it's a feature of bash: in my .profile
export PATH="~/bin:$DEFPATH" My PATH evaluates as ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games This only seems to cause problems with which. The bash manpage has several examples where the "~" is maintained in paths (and therefore, presumably, preferred). (E.g., FIGNORE, CDPATH, MAILPATH.) One not-quite-portable solution is to redefine which: alias which="command -v" (This doesn't work consistently for aliased commands, e.g., `which ls` returns my alias for ls without a path to /usr/bin/ls.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org