On 11/17/11 1:16 PM, Pierre Gaston wrote: >> This is the default bash-4.2 behavior. >> > I think he wants something different than the current behavior. He > wants the variable to stay a variable so that it is expanded when the > command is executed while the current behavior is to escape the $ so > that there is no expansion is happening when the command is executed .
I understand. Try the direxpand patch. It includes the heuristics I referenced in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-09/msg00007.html and explained in more detail in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-09/msg00015.html which provide a mostly-acceptable solution to that problem. Keep in mind that `$' is always going to be ambiguous. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
