> Machine Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 8
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> echo $PWD/<TAB>
>
> expands to
>
> echo \$PWD/
>
> which is *wrong* (and does not work neither for futher file name completion
> nor for calling whatever with the real directory path as argument).
>
> same happens with 4.2.10 (opensuse 12.1 beta-test), but works fine with
> bash-3.* and bash-4.1
>
> for my opensuse bug report see
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725657
Yes. Look at the bug-bash list archives for extensive discussion on
this topic. There will be several changes and fixes in the next bash
release to address this and other completion issues.
Chet
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
