[bug #65804] ~/bin detected as relative path

Update of bug #65804 (group findutils):

                  Status:                    None => Working as Intended    
             Assigned to:                    None => berny                  

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Follow-up Comment #1:

"~" is a meta-character known by the shell, and the shell
should usually expand it to the same value as "$HOME".
Still, in PATH environment variable, one should only have the
expanded value, i.e., not the literal '~/bin', because
that would really mean a relative directory with name '~/bin'.

The following illustrates the problematic PATH setting:

$ mkdir dir

$ env PATH="~/bin:$PATH" find dir -execdir realpath '{}' \; 
find: The relative path ‘~/bin’ is included in the PATH environment
variable, which is insecure in combination with the -execdir action of find. 
Please remove that entry from $PATH

$ env PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" find dir -execdir realpath '{}' \; 
/tmp/dir


Thus, I am convinced that this is a real problem in your PATH
setting, and not a problem in find(1) ... and actually find(1)
brought that topic up to you which is good. :-)

Hence I'm hereby setting this to works-as-intended.


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