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Re: Completion bug with `pwd`?

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx (Andrej Borsenkow)
Subject: Re: Completion bug with `pwd`?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:44:02 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zefram@xxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <027101bd9eb2$ac90f3f0$21c9ca95@xxxxxxxxxx> from "Andrej Borsenkow" at Jun 23, 98 06:24:45 pm

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>What is the correct way to do the above? (There are several commands which
>insists on having the absolute pathname).

Use "$PWD" or "~+" instead of "`pwd`".  It is possible to perform pathname
completion leaving pathname expansions and parameter expansions in the
word, where command substitutions must be expanded.  It also saves a
process (and some time) and avoids the ambiguity of command substitution.

-zefram

References:
- Re: Completion bug with `pwd`?
  - From: Andrej Borsenkow

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