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Vincent Lefevre <Vincent.Lefevre@ens-lyon.fr> writes:

> But why does zsh take all the files from the directories that are
> in $PATH, and not only the files that can be executed by the user?

It does only consider executable files.  There's nothing wrong with a
command ending in ~1~ or ,v.  Other than looking at the executable
bit, how should zsh determine which files are really executable?