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by IshKebab10 hours ago |
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upvoteby paulddraper9 hours ago|
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That's standard POSIX.

Tilde expands when at the beginning of an unquoted word.

Pretty straightforward.

  ~ or ~/ --> $HOME

  ~user --> user's home
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Bash has a few extra.

  ~+ --> $PWD

  ~- --> $OLDPWD

  ~+N or ~-N --> dirs
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upvoteby Joel_Mckay9 hours ago|
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In most use cases, the bash scripts location is more important than $HOME. This is because it is resilient to changes in user in the session, and parent process current working location contexts. =3

scriptPath=$(/usr/bin/realpath "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")

localPath=$(/usr/bin/dirname "$scriptPath" )

/usr/bin/echo "localPath = '$localPath'"

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upvoteby slashdave7 hours ago|
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
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upvoteby _ZeD_10 hours ago|
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well.. it's in zsh (and probably any other *sh) too
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upvoteby vbernat9 hours ago|
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In Zsh, you can set PATH with path=(~/.local/bin $path). There, it works as shell expansion works.
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upvoteby kccqzy9 hours ago|
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In fish, you can just do `fish_add_path ~/.local/bin`. Adding a directory to your PATH is so common that there’s a function to do it. And it takes effect immediately in all running instances of the shell.

https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/fish_add_path.html

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