Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?

On 26.01.2025 03:07, Keith Thompson wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 24.01.2025 23:00, Keith Thompson wrote:
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I mean that a shell should behave consistently. (I think Bash does
not in the given case.)

 
Consistently with what?  Bash consistently expands literal '~'s in
$PATH, and consistently disables that expansion in POSIX mode.

I think I have (already repeatedly) expanded on that, so let me just
enumerate some obvious aspects sparsely...
- expanding tilde once at dedicated places vs. twice
- consistency with other expansions (not done twice), e.g. '$HOME'
- (and if you accept that) consistency with the other shells

(Any single inconsistency is IMO already worthwhile to be critically
discussed.)

Janis

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