Subject: bug#57371: closed (Re: bug#57371: 28.1; eshell cannot handle ~ notation in PATH variable)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:04:02 +0000

Your bug report

#57371: 28.1; eshell cannot handle ~ notation in PATH variable

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#57371: 28.1; eshell cannot handle ~ notation in PATH variable
From: Jakub Ječmínek <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:02:52 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

tags 57371 notabug
thanks

Colton Lewis writes:

> Discovered while investigating the other bug I sent.
>
> 1. Create an executable ~/test-bin/test.sh
> 2. PATH="~/test-bin:$PATH" emacs -Q
> 3. Start eshell
> 4. test.sh
> 5. Observe no such file or directory error
>
> This can be worked around using PATH="$HOME/test-bin:$PATH" or using
> shell rather than eshell.

Jakub Ječmínek writes:

>> Hi Colton, what you're describing is not the bug in eshell but rather a bash feature; no other shell will perform expansion on literal
>> tilde in PATH (you can disable it in Bash using POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable).  If you drop the quotes then it's going
>> to work as expected because the shell will expand the tilde to HOME before storing it in PATH:
>>
>> PATH=~/test-bin:$PATH emacs -Q
>>
>> Best,
>> Jakub Ječmínek

Subject: 28.1; eshell cannot handle ~ notation in PATH variable
From: Colton Lewis <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 20:42:52 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Discovered while investigating the other bug I sent.

1. Create an executable ~/test-bin/test.sh
2. PATH="~/test-bin:$PATH" emacs -Q
3. Start eshell
4. test.sh
5. Observe no such file or directory error

This can be worked around using PATH="$HOME/test-bin:$PATH" or using
shell rather than eshell.

In GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.33,  
cairo version 1.16.0)
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