Re: bash tab variable expansion question?

[Roger]

> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:59:20AM -0800, Roger wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:40:02AM -0800, Roger wrote:
>>>The option works, as far as I can see.
>>>"ls $HOM" completes to "ls $HOME " instead of "ls $HOME/", though.
>>
>>
>>Weird.
>>
>>On Gentoo here, "echo $HO" does complete to "echo $HOME", but "ls $HO"
>>fails to complete here.
>>
>>(It is enabled here "$ eselect bashcomp list |grep coreutils".  Just to
>>verify, I just wiped $HOME/.bash_completion.d/ and renabled everything and
>>still no completion using /bin/ls.)
>
>Here's what I have defined for complete:
>
>$ complete  |grep ls
>complete -o default -F _longopt ls

Thanks Chet.  The following does give me Variable Bash Completion:

complete -o bashdefault -F _longopt ls

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Roger
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