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The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

A security write-up warns that putting a tilde (~) in your PATH environment variable can be dangerous, because the shell may not expand it to your home directory as expected, potentially allowing unexpected binaries to be executed. Developers on Hacker News are debating how PATH expansion works in different shells and what safer PATH configurations look like.

Why now: It is a surprising edge case in a tool most developers configure daily, with real security implications.

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