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Steps to reproduce

Related:

• Emulation of ~ (tilde) expansion for native utilities is incomplete #11386, the fix for which only partially addressed the issue.
• Implement ~username expansion on Windows and Linux #12387

/bin/echo ~/'foo'
/bin/echo ~/'foo bar'
/bin/echo ~/foo` bar
/bin/echo `~
/bin/echo ~'/'

Expected behavior

/Users/jdoe/foo
/Users/jdoe/foo bar
/Users/jdoe/foo bar
~
~/

Actual behavior

/Users/jdoe/foo
~/foo bar
~/foo bar
/Users/jdoe
/Users/jdoe

That is:

• the form with a substring that contains spaces - either quoted or with an `-escaped space - unexpectedly didn't expand (expansion should occur as long as the ~/ prefix isn't quoted or escaped).

• the escaped ~ unexpected expanded nonetheless (equivalent of echo \~ in Bash).

• even though the / after ~ was quoted, (~'/'), expansion still unexpectedly occurred.

Error details

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Environment data

PowerShell 7.4.1 on Unix-like platforms.

Visuals

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