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    See Simple variable assignment: Tilde does not expand in quotes Commented Nov 11, 2021 at 23:49
  • tl;dr; just use export PEM_FILE=~/.ssh/xxx.pem (or PEM=$HOME/.ssh/xxx.pem; export PEM, which will work in all bourne-like shells). No, the quotes aren't needed with export PEM=.... But they are needed with chmod 400 "$PEM_FILE". Commented Nov 12, 2021 at 0:29