bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue May 11 15:18:00 GMT 2004


On May 11 07:25, fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
> 
> Just lately (all recent snapshots including 20040510) I'm noticing a failure
> with tab completion for pathnames beginning /. Thus, I would expect, and in
> the past have achieved
> 
> 	ls /ho<TAB> 
> 	ls /home/
> or
> 	md5sum /us<TAB>loc<TAB>
> 	md5sum /usr/local/
> 
> and so on.
> 
> Now, all I am getting from ls /ho<TAB> or md5sum /us<TAB> is a system beep
> (i.e. "error!" or some kind of uncertainty or ambiguity affecting bash's
> interpretation).
> 
> For pathnames starting elsewhere, there's not a problem. E.g. from HOME I
> can press
> 
> 	cd st<TAB>
> 	cd stash

Interesting.  No problems with tcsh or zsh.  Just bash misbehaves.

Corinna

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