This was precisely the problem! Thanks so much for your help, I changed the relevant parts of ~/.profile to "$HOME/<path>" instead. On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 23:18:15 EST Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 01:36:18PM -0500, Joshua Nelson wrote: > > I've come across an error with the PATH variable in `dash`. Instead of > > fully searching PATH for commands, dash will respond 'command not > > found' if `command -p <executable>` fails. The same command works > > fine in Bash. > > > > The following example was performed in a live cd of Debian 9.1 Stretch > > (run in a virtual machine), with dash version 0.5.8-2.4: > > > > ```bash > > user@debian:~$ PATH="~/my_bin:$PATH" dash > > $ echo $PATH > > ~/my_bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games > > $ ls -l ~/my_bin/list > > -rwxr--r-- 1 user user 18 Jan 10 17:42 /home/user/my_bin/list > > $ list > > dash: 3: list: not found > > $ exit > > user@debian:~$ PATH="$PATH:~/my_bin" list > > Desktop Documents Downloads Music my_bin Pictures Public Templates Videos > > ``` > > > > I believe but am not certain that this is related to the following patch: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/dash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg01329.html > > In your example, the tilde is quoted and ends up literally in PATH. > Then, in bash only, tilde expansion is attempted again during the > search. In my testing, zsh, mksh, ksh93, dash and FreeBSD sh do not > implement this feature. Enabling POSIX mode in bash also disables the > feature. > > What works more portably is > PATH=~/my_bin:$PATH dash > or > PATH=$PATH:~/my_bin list > which expands the tilde at the time of the assignment. This works pretty > much everywhere except in old real Bourne shells, which do not implement > tilde expansion at all. > > If you want to quote the $PATH part, it is possible but not necessary > since it is in a variable assignment which is not subject to pathname > generation and word splitting anyway. However, if "export" is prepended, > I strongly recommend quoting it since some shells such as dash do not > implement the special rule for assignment utilities yet. > > -- > Jilles Tjoelker
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