On 07/05/2012 04:58 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:

> Now it changes the input string into
> 'less \$SRC/' and prevents tab expansion
> as would be done without use of any variables.
> Would anyone know how to restore the old behavior
> with bash 4.2.2 + readline 6.2 (linux ubuntu 12.04) ?

Yep - upgrade to bash 4.2.29 (that is, patchlevel 2 is missing the fix
in patchlevel 29 that restores the behavior you want).
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/bash42-029

This topic comes up frequently on this list.

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