Path expansion

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.

• 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.
• Subdirectory expansion: a// and a//b recursively expand to subdirs.

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