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


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: How not to expand a environment variable when doing command completion?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:53:52 -0600
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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.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
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