[Bug 609146] Re: /usr/bin/which and /usr/bin/xargs do not find commands in $HOME/bin

[Petr Gladkikh]

And by the way workaround replacing ~ with $PATH helps in my case. But
nonetheless I believe that behavior of 'which' should be consistent with
shell's lookup.

It is hard to believe that this problem have not be noted before. If
this is some known issue, can anyone point to explanation why it is not
corrected already?

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Title:
  /usr/bin/which and /usr/bin/xargs do not find commands in $HOME/bin

Status in “debianutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: debianutils

  I'm a little bit at loss with this problem and don't know where to
  start debugging it. My $PATH is
  PATH='~/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games',
  but neither 'which' nor 'xargs' find executable shell scripts in
  $HOME/bin. However, the bash magically 'knows' about these commands
  and can execute them. Bash-completion with <TAB> works for them as
  well. So I suppose that both which and xargs are somehow broken.
  However, 'which' is able to find commands in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin
  and /sbin. So this is very strange, looks as if 'which' and 'xargs'
  ignore the current $PATH.

  I would appreciate all help with this.

  Thanks.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: debianutils 3.2.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Jul 23 23:30:01 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: debianutils

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