[Nix-dev] Bad bash in NixOS?

Malcolm Matalka mmatalka at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 12:47:40 CET 2012


The version of bash in the NixOS I am running (which I think is fairly
up to date) has a bug in it where if you have try to tab-expand an env
variable it escapes it, so:

export FOO=$HOME/bar<TAB>

becomes

export FOO=\$HOME/bar

This appears to be an acknowledged bug in bash with a patch out[1].  Is
this coming to NixOS?  Is it here right now and I just am not upgrading
properly?

/Malcolm

[1]
http://gnu-bash.2382.n7.nabble.com/bash-tab-variable-expansion-question-td9614.html


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