Re: bash tab variable expansion question?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:46:58AM +0000, Davide Brini wrote:
> Maybe, but then it shouldn't escape the $ either, as the OP is reporting for 
> 4.2 (I don't have a 4.2 handy to test it).

I actually noticed this quite recently, but didn't think to bring it up.
I had just typed some "cd" command, and then realized I wanted to view
a file in the directory where I had just been.  So instead of changing
directory again, I typed "cd $OLDPWD/foo<TAB>" -- and the $OLDPWD became
\$OLDPWD and did not do as I wished.

Fortunately the workaround was simple enough -- once the filename had
been completed I went back and x'ed out the \.