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Workaround to disable tilde autocomplete in Bash on Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
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disable-tilde-autocomplete.sh
# even when the readline variable expand-tilde is set to off ~ gets replaced with the users directory
# to fix this erroneous behaviour add this to the end of your .bashrc (or upgrade to wheezy)
# tilde expansion is not affected by this so the tilde will still get replaced upon execution
__expand_tilde_by_ref()
{
return 0;
}
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