Weird behaviour with zsh PATH

Question

I just encourage a weird problem with zsh today.

My environment is Mac OS X Yosemite, zsh 5.0.5 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0)

In .zshrc, I have manually set the PATH

Answer 1

Try using $HOME instead of ~. In many situations, shells do not expand ~ when you expect them to and it is usually better to use $HOME. ~ is really only intended to be a short cut for interactive use. (The only case I can recall where ~ was preferred was in a .gitalias, where ~ was expanded and variables were not.)