Sorry Chet, for some reason I didn't see your reply until after I'd replied to Chris.
On Wednesday 15 January 2014 07:50:09 Chet Ramey wrote: > On 1/15/14 5:07 AM, Diggory Hardy wrote: > > 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? > > No. There was a bug with the default (no programmable completion) bash > completion that resulted in \$. This was fixed in bash-4.2 patch 29, and > you're running bash-4.2.45, so this is not the problem. You can verify > that it's not the problem by running `complete -r' and removing all of > the programmable completions. > > The problem you're having is caused by Fedora's bash-completion package, > which uses some variant of `printf %q' to quote completions. This is why > I recommended that you open a Fedora bug report against bash-completion. > > > (I don't want expansion either.) > > You probably won't like the direxpand option, then, but at least you won't > have to go back and remove the quotes. > > 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/
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