FS#29421 - [bash] $VAR tab expansion

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) - Friday, 13 April 2012, 07:09 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 13 April 2012, 07:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Currently in bash if you do something like ls $HOME/<tab> this because ls \$HOME/ and is useless when you try and run the command
Saying the $HOME is not a directory.

Steps to reproduce:
ls $HOME/<tab>

Patch:
I found this patch
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/patch/?id=b3203139c0ad0bd9fa902d5e7d8bf9064a74775f

which adds direxpand to shopt and seems to have fixed it for now
   bashexpand.patch (12.3 KiB)
   PKGBUILD (4.9 KiB)
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Friday, 13 April 2012, 07:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 13 April 2012, 07:51 GMT
This patch will not be applied until it lands on the development branch (or even better, the 4.2 branch). Request a reopen if that occurs.

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