Re: possible bug on readline

[DennisW]

On Jan 18, 11:01 am, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 1/18/10 12:40 AM, Samus_ wrote:
>
> > hello,  I had this on my shell: fgrep "$(nl_join " templates/
> > advertiser/campaign* and when tried to perform readline's glob-expand-
> > word I got some parse errors, I'm not sure if it is a bug or the
> > expected behaviour because the line isn't functional code however I'm
> > not sure if that should affect the expansion.
>
> This is the behavior of the completion function you have installed for
> "fgrep".  Without any completions installed, bash-4.1 behaves as you
> would expect.
>
> > ps: bash at gnu.org rejected my email.
>
> That's not a valid email address.
>
> Chet
>
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> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

But it's not fgrep's completion function if there's nothing on the
command line but:

"$("

(including quotes).