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I just installed bash 4.4.19 through brew on my mac and configured Terminal.app to use it as the default shell. All of that works.

Now when I type ln -s $HOME/+TAB it gets autocompleted to ln -s \$HOME/. The default bash that comes with macOS 10.13 would instead auto-complete that to ln -s /Users/lars/.

How can I get the old behavior back so that $HOME auto-completes to my home directory?

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  • what are the benefits of bash 4.4.19?
    – Matt Sephton
    Commented Mar 3, 2018 at 23:34
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    I wanted to glob recursively with **/*, which is possible with shopt globstar, which was not available in the stock bash that came with high sierra.
    – Lars Nyström
    Commented Mar 4, 2018 at 9:01

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Reset to default
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I solved this by adding the following to my .bash_profile

shopt -s direxpand
complete -r cd
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