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Re: TAB strips wildcards


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: TAB strips wildcards
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:38:24 -0600
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According to jidanni@jidanni.org on 8/29/2007 5:34 PM:
> Here is a true case of what happens when you hit TAB with a wildcard:
> $ shar /tmp/logs/*/*/*<TAB>
> access.log  access.log
> $ shar /tmp/logs/
> Yes, it strips the wildcards!

Have you installed a completion function that acts when the command is
shar (for example, via the external bash_completion package)?  If so, it
is more likely a bug in the completion function than in bash's tab
completion, but we would have to see the contents of that function to know
for sure.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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