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Re: tab expansion of $HOME/ to \$HOME/
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: tab expansion of $HOME/ to \$HOME/ |
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Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:50:09 -0500 |
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On 1/15/14 5:07 AM, Diggory Hardy wrote:
> 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?
No. There was a bug with the default (no programmable completion) bash
completion that resulted in \$. This was fixed in bash-4.2 patch 29, and
you're running bash-4.2.45, so this is not the problem. You can verify
that it's not the problem by running `complete -r' and removing all of
the programmable completions.
The problem you're having is caused by Fedora's bash-completion package,
which uses some variant of `printf %q' to quote completions. This is why
I recommended that you open a Fedora bug report against bash-completion.
> (I don't want expansion either.)
You probably won't like the direxpand option, then, but at least you won't
have to go back and remove the quotes.
Chet
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