Re: How to get filename completion without variable expansion?

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/17/11 1:16 PM, Pierre Gaston wrote:

>> This is the default bash-4.2 behavior.
>>
> I think he wants something different than the current behavior. He
> wants the variable to stay a variable so that it is expanded when the
> command is executed while the current behavior is to escape the $ so
> that there is no expansion is happening when the command is executed .

I understand.  Try the direxpand patch.  It includes the heuristics I
referenced in

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-09/msg00007.html

and explained in more detail in

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-09/msg00015.html

which provide a mostly-acceptable solution to that problem.  Keep in
mind that `$' is always going to be ambiguous.

Chet
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