Bash completion - don't expand ~

[Douglas Royds]

It has irritated me for some time that Bash was expanding ~ (my home 
directory path). For instance, if I type:

   $ ls ~/Doc <Tab>
Bash would expand the path to:

   $ ls /home/roydsd/Documents

This is a matter of personal taste, but I'd prefer the tilde to remain, 
thanks.

I've found the culprit in /etc/bash_completion. Find the function 
_expand(), and edit it as follows:

   # This function expands tildes in pathnames
   #
   _expand()
   {
       [ "$cur" != "${cur%\\}" ] && cur="$cur\\"

       # expand ~username type directory specifications
       if [[ "$cur" == \~*/* ]]; then
           #eval cur=$cur <-------- Commented out
           return # <-------- Added
          
       elif [[ "$cur" == \~* ]]; then
           #cur=${cur#\~}  <-------- Commented out
           #COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -P '~' -u $cur ) )  <--------
   Commented out
           #return [EMAIL PROTECTED]  <-------- Commented out
           return # <-------- Added
       fi
   }

Douglas.





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