Re: Error expanding variable containing a directory name

[Eli Schwartz]

On 7/23/20 12:08 PM, Lutz Adam wrote:
> Description:
>        The content of $ML is "/media/lad".  There's a directory
> /media/lad/p24. Typing the command
>             ls $ML/p24<TAB-key>
>        a backslash is put befor "$" and the line looks like:
>             ls \$ML/p24/
>        Typing the ENTER key shows:
>             ls: cannot access '$ML/p24/': No such file or directory.
> 
> Repeat-By:
>         Create a variable containing a directory name. Put a
> subdirectory there under.
>         Type a "$" and the variable followed by a slash, the name of the
> subdirectora and the TAB-key.
> 
> 
> The OS is Linux Mint 20

The built-in bash tab completion actually does this okay. Are you using
the bash-completion project addon functionality?

[eschwartz@arch ~]$ ls $HOME/<TAB>
 --> rewrites in-place to...
[eschwartz@arch ~]$ ls \$HOME/
[eschwartz@arch ~]$ bash --norc --noprofile
bash-5.0$ ls $HOME/<TAB>
Display all 163 possibilities? (y or n)
[...]


-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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