Re: strange to me auto completion error

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Author: James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss
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CC: James Mcphee
Subject: Re: strange to me auto completion error
do you have a file in that directory named "$LFS"? the backslash in your
autocomplete means it's treating it as an escaped $ instead of a variable.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 11:00 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> wrote:

> whenever I type rm $LFS/so <tab><tab> it is replaced with:
>
> bmike1@bmike1-desktop:~$ rm \$LFS/so (and the auto complete options)
>
> which upon completion results in:
>
> rm: cannot remove '$LFS/sources/wget-list': No such file or directory
>
> why is it doing this?
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