strange to me auto completion error

[James Mcphee]

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 <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> whenever I type rm $LFS/so <tab><tab> it is replaced with:
>
> bmike1 at bmike1-desktop:~$ 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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