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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:55:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Bash problem with SFN
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On Tue, 6 Mar 101, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> > I just looked at what bash 2.03 does on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.r2.
> > It appears I may be confused by tcsh's tab-completion behaviour
> > on environment variables. Say $VAR contains a path. $VAR<tab>
> > will expand to '<contents of $VAR>/' on tcsh, but bash gives
> > you '$VAR '. To tab-complete a path with bash, I need to use
> > '$VAR<tab><backspace>/<tab>'.
> 
> I don't have this behaviour of tcsh on Solaris.

Same here (tcsh 6.03.00 on Solaris 5.5.1).  It just completes the 
variable name, not expands it to its value.

> I don't know how to find out which version it is though.

Type "echo $version".

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