Re: How to change the command completion behavior in bash

[Chet Ramey]

> If I have the following in the command line,
> 
> ~/.bash
> 
> when I type <TAB>, it will become /home/my_user_name/.bash
> 
> I'm wondering if it is possible to configure bash command completion,
> so that it will still be '~/.bash'

You don't say what version of bash you're using, but bash-3.2 and bash-4.0
both preserve the tilde by default.

Chet

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