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Re: How not to expand a environment variable when doing command completi
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: How not to expand a environment variable when doing command completion? |
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Tue, 25 May 2010 22:43:09 -0400 |
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On 5/25/10 10:28 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> 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?
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>> There is no setting to suppress the environment variable expansion. Bash
>> has behaved this way for many years.
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> This default behavior may not be always wanted. Will a setting be
> added to suppress the expansion in future versions of bash?
I have no current plans to do so.
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