> 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. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/