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Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:26:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /
- References: <200405110629.i4B6TlAX025137@mx3.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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