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On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:55:06AM +0300, M. Nejat AYDIN wrote:
> Also, shouldn't the tilde be expanded following
>     $ echo ~:
> ? The colon terminates tilde-prefix in an assignment, but there is no
> assignment involved here.

Works for me.

unicorn:~$ echo ~:
/home/greg:

Also in POSIX mode.