$ becomes \$ upon tab expansion

$ ls $HOME/xx/yy/z becomes $ ls \$HOME/xx/yy/zz It should become $ ls $HOME/xx/yy/zz else it will fail when the user finally hits RET. (Assume a zz file already exists. "ls" here is just an example. same for "cat" etc.) Bash 5.0.16

Re: $ becomes \$ upon tab expansion

On 5/24/20 4:50 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > $ ls $HOME/xx/yy/z > becomes > $ ls \$HOME/xx/yy/zz It doesn't. Maybe it does when you use bash-completion. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, C