Re: Strange compgen behaviour

[Bernd Eggink]

Chet Ramey schrieb:
> > Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace. 
>
> Well, it splits the argument to -W on $IFS as documented.  What other
> strange behavior do you see? 

For example, this:

    function _aha
    {
        local list="a b:c d:e f"
        COMPREPLY=($(IFS=: compgen -W "$list"))
    }

    complete -F _aha aha

Typing aha <Tab> cycles through 6 items a, b, c, d, e, f, whereas I 
would expect 3 items 'a b', 'c d', 'e f'. It looks like compgen splits 
the argument to -W on $IFS _and_ whitespace. Or am I missing something?

Regards,
Bernd

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