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Re: $PWD completion wrong


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: $PWD completion wrong
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:11:39 -0400

> Machine Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 8
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       echo $PWD/<TAB>
> 
> expands to
>  
>       echo \$PWD/
> 
> which is *wrong* (and does not work neither for futher file name completion 
> nor for calling whatever with the real directory path as argument).
> 
> same happens with 4.2.10 (opensuse 12.1 beta-test), but works fine with 
> bash-3.* and bash-4.1 
> 
> for my opensuse bug report see
> 
>       https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725657

Yes.  Look at the bug-bash list archives for extensive discussion on
this topic.  There will be several changes and fixes in the next bash
release to address this and other completion issues.

Chet

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