Why autocompletion in terminal converts $ENVAR to \$ENVAR? (Ubuntu 20.04)

Asked Aug 30 '20 at 03:29

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I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04.

When I pressed the tab key for auto-completion of an environment variable, let say ENVAR, which contains directory information, it suddenly converted the '$' to '$' so that I could not input the directory any longer.

i.e.,

ENVAR=$HOME/mydir

and I want to input $ENVAR/subdir1. So I press the tab key at

$ cd $ENVAR/sub

then it returns

$ cd \$ENVAR/subdir1

What should I do?

Has anyone experienced a similar problem to me?

Thanks for your help.

asked Aug 30 '20 at 03:29

Geon-Hong Kim

That's normal behavior. Let it happen. – user535733 Aug 30 '20 at 03:55
you can use shopt -s direxpand to get the old behavior back 1 – Aug 30 '20 at 04:01
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@user535733 Why is it better to let it happen? – Geon-Hong Kim Sep 12 '20 at 04:36
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Does this answer your question? How to get bash to stop escaping $ during tab completion? – Anthony Geoghegan Dec 10 '21 at 18:52

Why autocompletion in terminal converts $ENVAR to \$ENVAR? (Ubuntu 20.04)

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