GNU bug report logs - #57371
28.1; eshell cannot handle ~ notation in PATH variable

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis <at> google.com>

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.1

Done: Jakub Ječmínek <jecminek.k <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jakub Ječmínek <jecminek.k <at> gmail.com>
To: 57371 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57371: 28.1; eshell cannot handle ~ notation in PATH variable
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 22:16:01 +0100

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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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