[Haskell-cafe] Happy: PATH issue

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 2, 2010, at 18:21 , Daniel Fischer wrote:
>> Additionally, some shells only expand "~" at the beginning of a
>> "word", so if you `export PATH=~/foo:~/bar' the second "~" won't be
>> expanded.  (bash will expand it after a colon, so that should work.)
>
> Do you perchance know which shells would expand only the first tilde?

Older zsh when MAGIC_EQUAL_SUBST isn't set.  zsh 4.x handles "export"  
and some other builtins automatically, but MAGIC_EQUAL_SUBST is still  
needed in some cases, such as the occasionally suggested `echo  
PATH=... >>.profile'.

>
>> A way to check this:  type `env PATH'.
>
> Shouldn't that be

It was supposed to be "printenv".  *sigh*

>
>> If the result contains a "~",
>> you need to look at how you're setting PATH to make sure "~" isn't
>> being quoted.
>
> If the result contains a tilde, you're already hosed because
> System.Directory.findExecutable doesn't do tilde-expansion before  
> calling
> doesFileExist.

Er, that's the point.

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