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 5.3 Path expansion
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 Kpathsea recognizes certain special characters and constructions in
 search paths, similar to that in shells.  As a general example:
 '~$USER/{foo,bar}//baz' expands to all subdirectories under directories
 'foo' and 'bar' in $USER's home directory that contain a directory or
 file 'baz'.
 
    These expansions are explained in the sections below.
 

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· Default expansion           a: or :a or a::b expands to a default.
· Variable expansion          $foo and ${foo} expand to environment values.
· Tilde expansion             ~ and ~user expand to home directories.
· Brace expansion             a{foo,bar}b expands to afoob abarb.
· KPSE_DOT expansion          . is replaced with $KPSE_DOT if it is defined.
· Subdirectory expansion      a// and a//b recursively expand to subdirs.
 

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