Tab Completion and Typical Behavior

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

robert_neville310@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have a question about tab completion in the console window. The
> .bash_profile exports the right paths and the console performs tab
> completion. My scripts can be found in ~/bin. I can tab out
> myscript.sh, but can not tab complete ./myscript.sh; or sh
> myscript.sh. Is this behavior normal? Can I change the console
> behavior to tab out ./myscript.sh?
> 
> #.bash_profile
> # Set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> if [ -d "${HOME}/bin" ] ; then
>    PATH=${HOME}/bin:${PATH}
> fi


WFFM.  Assuming the script is executable, it should work.  But if it isn't
executable, I would expect that it wouldn't work for either variant.  But
maybe you have two versions of 'myscript.sh', one in ~/bin and one
elsewhere, where the one elsewhere is executable and the one in ~/bin is
not.  If not, I'd recommend reading the bash man page for helpful hints.


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