Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread felix
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:33:40PM +, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > It seems to have been reported: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00274.html There is one useful note in that thread. ESC ctrl-e gets rid of the backslash, and if you want to keep the $VAR as $VAR, backspac

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread felix
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:33:40PM +, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > It seems to have been reported: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00274.html Your google-fu is strong. I bow in your general direction :-) -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:01:15 -0700 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:55:05AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > > > A possible culprit maybe the bash-completion package. Have you updated > > that recently? > > I haven't had bash-completion installed for years. I forget now what > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread felix
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:55:05AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > A possible culprit maybe the bash-completion package. Have you updated > that recently? I haven't had bash-completion installed for years. I forget now what I didn't like about it, but it's not in the picture now. -- ..

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:51:54AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I have an env var, WWW=/home/www/felix, which I have always used with > tab completion without problems. > > cd $WWW/htph20110318 > > would expand in steps > > cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/ > cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/

[gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-22 Thread felix
I have an env var, WWW=/home/www/felix, which I have always used with tab completion without problems. cd $WWW/htph20110318 would expand in steps cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/ cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/photos/ cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/photos/20110318 But some recent bash upgrade h