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Re: tab expansion of $HOME/ to \$HOME/
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Diggory Hardy |
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Re: tab expansion of $HOME/ to \$HOME/ |
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Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:07:57 +0100 |
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Thanks Chris.
So the way I read it is that many people didn't like bash 4.1 behaviour
(expansion), but the fact that a $ is replaced with \$ in 4.2 is a bug no one
knows how to fix.
Is this correct?
(I don't want expansion either.)
Regards,
Diggory
On Tuesday 14 January 2014 10:57:03 Chris Down wrote:
> On 2014-01-13 11:00:09 +0100, Diggory Hardy wrote:
> > If I enter
> >
> > $ ls $HOME/Do
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> > and press the Tab key, bash expands to
> >
> > $ ls \$HOME/Documents
>
> See this older thread[0].
>
> If you bash >= 4.2.29 (which it appears you do), you can turn on
> `direxpand' to get the old behaviour back by using `shopt -s direxpand'.
>
> [0]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00274.html
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