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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