On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:59 AM, John Embretsen <john...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 Feb 2011 18:18:24 -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:49 PM, gnu.bash.bug <address@hidden>wrote: >>> A workaround is fine but is the 4.2 behavior bug or not? >> >>It's a more-or-less unintended consequence of the requested change Eric >>Blake referred to earlier in the thread. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00275.html > > (...) > >> The question is how to tell readline that the `$' should be quoted >> under some circumstances but not others. There's no hard-and-fast >> rule that works all the time, though I suppose a call to stat(2) >> before quoting would solve part of the problem. I will have to give >> it more thought. >> >> Chet > > Any updates on this issue? > > The workarounds for $PWD and $OLDPWD is not enough, and the "workaround" of > going back on the command line and removing escape characters is not > acceptable in my humble opinion. > > I often use environment variable-based tab completion to navigate to the > correct directory on my system, but with bash 4.2 this is no longer an > option. For example, > > with CODE=/path/to/dir and /path/to/dir/ containing test1/ and test2/, > > cd $CODE/test<TAB><TAB> should give a list of $CODE/test1 $CODE/test2 when > those directories exist, not "cd \$CODE/test". > > If there is no fix in sight for this issue, can someone point me to a guide > for downgrading bash in recent popular Linux distros? > > > thanks, > > -- > John >
There have been many updates on this. There have been a "fix" available for some time now on this list . It is now available as an official patch ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/bash42-029
