Git custom commands from PATH not working
Your PATH
contains unexpanded ~/bin
. Your shell understands what ~/
means but git
apparently doesn't. You should include full path to ~/bin
in your PATH
.
If you used PATH=~/"bin:${PATH}"
instead of PATH="~/bin:${PATH}"
, tilde expansion would occur and PATH
would store the expanded path. But there's a problem with :~/bin:
inside [[ ]]
. Not quoting tilde is not the only condition (see "Tilde Expansion" in man 1 bash
), this makes expanding :~/bin:
difficult. And you need to expand it to test against the full path in PATH
.
It's easier to use $HOME
:
[[ ":$PATH:" != *":$HOME/bin:"* ]] && PATH="$HOME/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH
$HOME
gets expanded before the whole string is assigned to the PATH
variable. This means PATH
now contains the full path to your $HOME/bin
. git
will understand this path.