[conspire] curious behavior of bash completion when there's a character that needs to be escaped e.g. $

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Jan 15 14:40:06 PST 2020


Quoting Peter Knaggs (peter.knaggs at gmail.com):

> and I type in the following command:
> cp $HOME/Downloads/CSA

I'm delighted you found the answer to this conundrum via search, but
personally I prefer tilde expressions for homedirs, anyway; fewer
characters.

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