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Depends on the Bash version, I guess? Mine is 4.4.20(1) and when I do "cd $HOME/my[TAB]", it replaces the input line with "cd /home/joker/my\ dir/", and pressing [ENTER] changes the directory to '/home/joker/my dir', as can be seen from the prompt.

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The variable escaping behavior has existed for a while https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32463052/bash-tabbing-fo... https://askubuntu.com/questions/70750/how-to-get-bash-to-sto... https://askubuntu.com/questions/41891/bash-auto-complete-for...

And I experience the problematic behavior on my Ubuntu VM. However, I can get the above describe expansion behavior if I run: shopt -s direxpand

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