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28.1; eshell cannot handle ~ notation in PATH variable

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From: Jakub Ječmínek <jecminek.k <at> gmail.com>
To: 57371-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57371: 28.1; eshell cannot handle ~ notation in PATH variable
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:02:52 +0100

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

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