Re: [Bug-readline] Bash escapes '$' on successful completion

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/11/19 8:08 PM, Dario Niedermann wrote:
> Il 11/02/2019 alle 22:07, Chet Ramey ha scritto:
> 
>> I can't reproduce this:
> [...]
>> $ ls $DIR/bin                        <---- [TAB][TAB] after bi here
>> bin/               bin.freebsd/       bin.macosx/        bin.sun4-solaris2/
>> bin.bsd386/        bin.linux/         bin.sun4/          bin.sun4-solaris7/
>> $ ls $DIR/HTTPS.1.0          <---- [TAB][TAB] after HT
>> HTTPS.1.0.m.NIS.b.tar.gz    HTTPS.1.09b.m.NIS.b.tar.gz
>> $ ls $DIR/HTTPS.1.09b.m.NIS.b.tar.gz         <---- 9[TAB]
> 
> That's probably because none of your final matches contained spaces
> that needed to be escaped.

OK, I see. A filename like '$DIR/Local Applications' is inherently
ambiguous when you go to quote it, since the `$' and ` ' are both
characters that need to be quoted. If you encounter this enough for
it to be a problem, the `direxpand' option exists as a workaround.
There were several spirited discussions of this issue back in 2011,
which led to the `direxpand' option.

This is a bash-specific issue, not a readline one.

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