Bash variable expansion on tab complete
Found the bug report, please register (if not already registered) and add yourself to the 'people affected' list, I just did:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/778627
Workarounds
Try enabling direxpand
or cdable_vars
:
shopt -s direxpand# orshopt -s cdable_vars
Apparently EscTab might be a workaround:
I haven't found a proper solution to this, but there's a workaround. The escaping of environment variables can be disabled by pressing Esc followed by tab.
# cd $SO + [Esc] + [Tab]# cd $SOME_DIR
Confirm that as a bug! I just confirmed that the same thing works on
No LSB modules are available.Distributor ID: UbuntuDescription: Ubuntu 10.10Release: 10.10Codename: maverick
I get broken behaviour on (up-to-date) natty:
No LSB modules are available.Distributor ID: UbuntuDescription: Ubuntu 11.04Release: 11.04Codename: natty
Although I must add that I do not the slash escaped, but the path (while valid, existing, accessible and readable) is not getting expanded.
The bug report refered to in other answers at bugs.launchpad.net gives a new workaround by issuing the command:
shopt -s direxpand
It works for me.
I was having a similar problem in cygwin (NT-6.1 2.0.1 2015-04-30) bash (GNU 4.3.33), especially when I would try to tab-expand a path that contained spaces.
I put shopt -s direxpand
in my ~/.bashrc. Problem solved.