Hello, I originally reported this on the GNU bug-bash mailing list, but was told I should forward the issue. ---------------- The problem: If I enter $ ls $HOME/Do and press the Tab key, bash expands to $ ls \$HOME/Documents (notice $ is replaced with \$). This is from my point of view an annoying anti-feature, since I must then remove the escaping back-slash. ---------------- Response on GNU's bug-bash list (copied from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-01/msg00064.html ): This is a problem with bash_completion. Patch 29 to bash-4.2 fixed this problem for the default (non-bash-completion) case. If you remove the completion specifications (complete -r), the backslash doesn't get added. You can't just delete the completion specification for ls, since Fedora has a default completion that installs a new completion for ls the next time completion is attempted. I don't know what the problem is with bash_completion, but you should probably file a bug report with Fedora. You can set the `direxpand' option and probably get around most of this, with the change that variables will be expanded upon completion, as in bash-4.1. Chet --------------- My system: Fedora 20, GNU bash, version 4.2.45(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
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