I have an animated gif that shows the bug. If you browse to: http://bmi.osu.edu/~rutt/bashcompletion.gif
it will show how e.g. cd $HOM<press TAB> will expand to cd \$HOME I think this is a bug in the method: _cd() { local IFS=$'\t\n' cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]} i j k [...] } My version is $Id: bash_completion,v 1.872 2006/03/01 16:20:18 ianmacd Exp $ Thanks, -- Benjamin Rutt _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash