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Re: What should be the expected behavior for $_ ?
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: What should be the expected behavior for $_ ? |
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Tue, 3 Apr 2018 10:07:55 -0400 |
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 10:03:30AM -0400, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote:
> $ mkdir testdir
> $ cp rpmall.txt rpmshort.txt $_ # Use tab completion to complete filenames
> cp: target '_filedir' is not a directory
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> Last command fails because tab completing 'cp' command modifies value of
> '$_'. Shall value of '$_' be modified if a command gets executed in
> background ?
Sounds like bash-completion (which is a totally separate project from
bash) strikes again.