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Tilde expansion for PATH in bash
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bashpath.sh
pse@Mithos:~$ echo $PATH
/Users/pse/.bin/script:/Users/pse/.bin/i386:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/go/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands
pse@Mithos:~$ PATH="~/.tmp:$PATH"
pse@Mithos:~$ echo $PATH
~/.tmp:/Users/pse/.bin/script:/Users/pse/.bin/i386:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/go/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands
pse@Mithos:~$ cat >.tmp/foo
#!/bin/bash
echo hello world
pse@Mithos:~$ chmod +x .tmp/foo
pse@Mithos:~$ type foo
foo is /Users/pse/.tmp/foo
pse@Mithos:~$ foo
hello world
pse@Mithos:~$
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