I have a TAR (compressed) file that I uncompressed using the following command

$ tar xvf uagent.tar

It created a directory structure as follows

<root>/arcagent/UAGENT/reloc/$UAGENT_HOME/

How do I access files under the $UAGENT_HOME? Every time I do change directory command, the OS thinks $UAGENT_HOME is an alias (which it is not), and I get sent to another directory. If I try to access a file in that directory, I get a message saying the file does not exist, because the OS interprets the $UAGENT_HOME as an alias and looks for the file in another directory.

I need to get to the files under this $UAGENT_HOME directory, but can't.