Bug#741292: bash: completion wrongly adds before $ when special characters follow

[Gioele Barabucci]

Version: 5.2.21-2.1

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:33:34 +0100 Frank Heckenbach 
<f.heckenb...@fh-soft.de> wrote:
Completion wrongly adds a \ before $ when special characters follow:
% mkdir test
% touch test/a:
% X=test
% echo $X/<TAB>

results in:

% echo \$X/a\:

This no longer happens in Bash 5.2.21:

$ mkdir test
$ touch test/a:
$ X=test
$ echo $X/a<TAB>
$ echo $X/a\:

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci