Turn off bash completion?

[James Wilkinson]

I wrote:

> However, if I put the $ into the $include command, then the i key works
> properly.

g wrote:

> '$' defines a *string variable*

Not in this case, no. ~/.inputrc is not a shell script (at least in the
conventional case of the term).

> and must be present.

That’s what I was saying.

> ** in addition **
> 
> string variables should be uppercase.
> 
> see:  man bash

Only by convention.

In this case, man bash lists $include as lower case. Since Unix is
usually case-sensitive, it’s rarely advisable to change the case of
examples given in documentation (although in this case it doesn’t seem
to hurt).

James.

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