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Re: How not to expand a environment variable when doing command completi


From: pk
Subject: Re: How not to expand a environment variable when doing command completion?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:48:33 -0000
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Eric Blake wrote:

> On 05/22/2010 02:48 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> When I type 'cd $HOME/.<TAB>', bash will expand the command to 'cd
>> /home/my_user_name/.'. Would you please let me know how to let bash
>> expand the environment variable?
> 
> I assume you meant "to let bash NOT expand the environment variable"?
> At any rate, you should file this bug report to the bash-completion
> people, since that is an artifact of bash-completion, and not bash itself.

Although I don't consider that a bug in any way, it actually happens with 
pure bash as well, with no completion packages installed.


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