Bash file completion (Tab) produces "-sh: exclude: unbound variable"

Jacob Jacobson news@biyani.org
Thu Aug 19 14:04:00 GMT 2010


On 8/18/2010 10:22 AM, Dr. Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> after having recently upgraded Cygwin on my laptop running Windows Vista
> the  Bash Shell  started misbehaving  by issuing  "-sh: exclude: unbound
> variable" whenever I hit  "Tab" for file  name completion.  After trying
> the obvious (that is, issuing "set +u") and even having success with it,
> I checked  the Cygwin  mailing  list archives  but  only found a  single
> thread ending with "Problem solved, use 'set -o nounset'".
>

My understanding is that, this has been forwarded upstream for fixing in 
next release.


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