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? (I don't want expansion either.) Regards, Diggory On Tuesday 14 January 2014 10:57:03 Chris Down wrote: > On 2014-01-13 11:00:09 +0100, Diggory Hardy wrote: > > If I enter > > > > $ ls $HOME/Do > > > > and press the Tab key, bash expands to > > > > $ ls \$HOME/Documents > > See this older thread[0]. > > If you bash >= 4.2.29 (which it appears you do), you can turn on > `direxpand' to get the old behaviour back by using `shopt -s direxpand'. > > [0]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00274.html
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