Re: Directory completion problems

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/19/12 9:03 AM, Artur Rataj wrote:
> I want the logical view, and I think there is one by now. But there is a
> file missing in the logical directory, when cd ../ is completed from a 
> symlink.
> 
> ~/projects/art/dev$ ls -la
> drwxr-xr-x  6 art art 4096 2012-02-24 16:21 .bzr
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 art art   18 2012-04-16 14:48 lib -> ../../hth/dev/lib/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 art art 4096 2012-02-24 16:21 src
> ~/projects/art/dev$ cd lib/../
> .bzr/ lib/ 
> 
> I have made a test directory, to analyse the problem:
> 
> ~/a$ ls -la
> drwxr-xr-x  5 art art 4096 2012-04-19 14:50 .
> drwxr-xr-x 80 art art 4096 2012-04-19 14:48 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 art art 4096 2012-04-19 14:48 .hidden
> drwxr-xr-x  2 art art 4096 2012-04-19 14:50 .java
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 art art    7 2012-04-19 14:48 symlink -> ../test
> ~/a$ cd symlink/../
> 
> hitting Tab gives:
> 
> ~/a$ cd symlink/../.java/

I'm wondering if you're using a completion for cd.  Using both bash-4.2.24
and the current development source, I get a completion of "symlink " (with
a space instead of a slash appended, since readline needs some more work
to do the same kind of logical directory traversal that bash does).

Chet

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