Path variable

[BaileyJM02]

• Dart VM version: 2.0.0-dev.58.0 (Unknown timestamp) on "linux_x64"
• Linux Ubuntu 18, but probably all OS

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When using commands such as pub global activate [package] I was given the following error:

Warning: Pub installs executables into ~/.pub-cache/bin, which is not on your path.
You can fix that by adding this to your shell's config file (.bashrc, .bash_profile, etc.):

  export PATH="$PATH":"~/.pub-cache/bin"

However, with hours of dispear and annoyance that the fix provided didn't work, I have finally found a solution and feel, to save other peoples time, I will ask you to fix it.

Instead of this:

export PATH="$PATH":"~/.pub-cache/bin"

It should be

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.pub-cache/bin"

[natebosch]

The details of the expansion do depend on your shell and where you are adding the export (could differ between .profile and .bash_profile for instance).

I do think that "$HOME" is likely to work with more consistency than "~".