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Re: tab expansion cant deal with "=" in filenames
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: tab expansion cant deal with "=" in filenames |
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Date: |
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 08:53:29 -0500 |
> Bash Version: 2.05a
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> no matter if you do
> $ cat =TAB
> $ cat ./=TAB
> $ cat ./=bbbTAB
> bash just can't expand a filename with a "=" at front. Maybe middle
> too--I didn't test that.
Quote it. A backslash is sufficient. `=' is a word break character
for the completion code.
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