Bash puzzle: Spaces, environment variables and tab completion

[Michael Schaap]

On 4-12-2002 17:17, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Michael Schaap wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 4-12-2002 7:09, James Shaw wrote:
>>(...)
>>
>>>What I want to do is define an environment
>>>variable so I can easily cd or ls.  E.g.
>>>% PF="/cygdrive/c/Program Files"
>>>% cd $PF
>>>% ls $PF/Games
>>>% ls $PF/G<tab completion!>
>>>
>>(...)
>>
>>>So, I ask the list:
>>>        Can you define $PF so that cd $PF;
>>>        ls $PF/Games; and ls $PF/G<tab> all work???
>>
>>I'd do something like:
>>
>>% ln -s '/cygdrive/c/Program Files' /programs
>>% PF=/programs
>>
>>  - Michael
> 
> 
> $ mount 'c:\Program Files' /programs
> 
> 	Igor

Yep, that's even better.  But, I believe, in order to get TAB completion 
to work, you need to do:

$ mkdir /programs
$ mount 'c:\Program Files' /programs
$ PF=/programs

  - Michael


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