[gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

[felix@crowfix.com]

I have an env var, WWW=/home/www/felix, which I have always used with
tab completion without problems.

    cd $WWW/ht<tab>ph<tab>20110318

would expand in steps

    cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/
    cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/photos/
    cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/photos/20110318

But some recent bash upgrade has scuppered this.  <tab> no longer
expands the $WWW; instead, it escapes the $, adds a space at the end,
and thinks itself clever.

    cd \$WWW/ht ph

which does me no good.

I'll be danged if I can figure out any google-fu to search for this,
and 'bash help'  and 'info bash' have done me no good either.

I do not know which specific bash upgrade changed this, since I don't
have very many of these env vars I used similarly.  The current "bash
--version" is 4.2.8(2)-release, gentoo version is app-shells/bash-4.2_p8.

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