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  1. Bug #778627
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 778627

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: [Bug 778627] Re: bash completion now quotes shell variable references rather than expanding them

On 10 April 2013 14:48, Ladios Jonquil <email address hidden> wrote:
> Actually, most defined completions would add '\' in front of '$'. It only works when the command has no completion defined, for instance, the `ll` alias does.
> Don't know what went wrong. I think I have to go for the direxpand option.
>

Did you enable direxpand option?

$ shopt -s direxpand

All this SRU does is backport "direxpand" option and leaves it
disabled by default. One must enable it, if variable expansion is
desired.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.