Re: Strange hostname completions after unset HOSTFILE

[Chet Ramey]

Freddy Vulto wrote:

> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 48
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>     The manual says that upon unsetting HOSTFILE, the hostname list is 
> cleared:
> 
>         HOSTFILE
>         Contains the name of a file in the  same  format  as /etc/hosts
>         that should be read when the shell needs to complete a hostname.
>         The list of possible hostname completions may be  changed  while
>         the  shell  is running;  the  next  time hostname completion is
>         attempted after the value is changed, bash adds the contents  of
>         the new file to the existing list.  If HOSTFILE is set, but has
>         no value, bash attempts to read /etc/hosts to obtain the list of
>         possible  hostname  completions.   When HOSTFILE  is unset, the
>         hostname list is cleared.
> 
>     but when I do so, instead of returning nothing, `compgen -A
>     hostname' returns strange data.

Thanks for the report.  This will be fixed in the next release of bash.

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/