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I used to be able to type

cd $home/p

hit the tab key and the command would change to

cd /home/phill

Now it doesn't. When cd'ing to a directory based on an environmental variable, I'm "flying blind" now which is annoying. I know this feature exists because it was fine on my old Debian 5 machine.

I'm using Debian 6 stable. I installed the bash completion package which allows to complete partial environmental variables but that isn't what I want. Unfortunately talk of that feature is clogging up results on Google.

Help would be very much appreciated.

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I just diffed my two bash_rc files. Turns out I need to delete the section that sources /etc/bash_completion, that is, to NOT use bash_completion extensions.

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Good to know. Thanks for reporting :) – SkyBeam May 28 '11 at 15:33
Is there any way to make it work w/o needing to disable all the useful completions provided by /etc/bash_completion? – BeeOnRope Aug 17 '11 at 2:32
Sorry, I don't know. I think that requires a fresh post. – Philluminati Aug 23 '11 at 10:49
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