tilde expansion in environment variable

Question

In my .sh file, I have this, cp $file $SOME_PATH, while $SOME_PATH is exported as export SOME_PATH=\"~/path/to/path/\". But when I ran this .sh fil

Answer 1

Remove the quotation marks on your export:

export SOME_PATH=~/path/to/path/

Answer 2

use

SOME_PATH=~/path/to/path/

if you path have spaces, quote it

SOME_PATH=~/"path with spaces"