On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> When I type 'cd $HOME/.<TAB>', bash will expand the command to 'cd >> /home/my_user_name/.'. Would you please let me know how to let bash >> expand the environment variable? > > There is no setting to suppress the environment variable expansion. Bash > has behaved this way for many years.
This default behavior may not be always wanted. Will a setting be added to suppress the expansion in future versions of bash? -- Regards, Peng