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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:51:54AM -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> I have an env var, WWW=/home/www/felix, which I have always used with |
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> tab completion without problems. |
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> cd $WWW/ht<tab>ph<tab>20110318 |
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> would expand in steps |
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> cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/ |
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> cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/photos/ |
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> cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/photos/20110318 |
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> But some recent bash upgrade has scuppered this. <tab> no longer |
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> expands the $WWW; instead, it escapes the $, adds a space at the end, |
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> and thinks itself clever. |
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> cd \$WWW/ht ph |
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> which does me no good. |
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> I'll be danged if I can figure out any google-fu to search for this, |
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> and 'bash help' and 'info bash' have done me no good either. |
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> I do not know which specific bash upgrade changed this, since I don't |
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> have very many of these env vars I used similarly. The current "bash |
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> --version" is 4.2.8(2)-release, gentoo version is app-shells/bash-4.2_p8. |
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A possible culprit maybe the bash-completion package. Have you updated |
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that recently? |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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