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Re: How not to expand a environment variable when doing command complet
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Peng Yu |
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Re: How not to expand a environment variable when doing command completion? |
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Tue, 25 May 2010 21:28:00 -0500 |
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.
This default behavior may not be always wanted. Will a setting be
added to suppress the expansion in future versions of bash?
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Regards,
Peng