Re: problem in cd in bash (maybe an RFE);

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/17/17 8:31 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> In Bash Ver 4.4.5, cdspell is confused by non-directory
> items in the same dir.
> 
> 
>>  uname -a
> Linux Ishtar 4.10.8-Isht-Van #4 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 20 10:46:50 PDT 2017
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
>>  set -o|grep on|sed -r 's/[      ].*$//'|tr "\n" " "   # (set -o "on" 
> vals) braceexpand hashall history interactive-comments monitor onecmd
> pipefail vi
> 
> 
>>  shopt -s|sed -r 's/[    ].*$//'|tr "\n" " "       # (shopts that are on)
> autocd cdable_vars cdspell checkhash checkwinsize cmdhist
> complete_fullquote dirspell dotglob expand_aliases extglob extquote
> force_fignore globasciiranges globstar histappend histreedit histverify
> hostcomplete interactive_comments lithist login_shell
> no_empty_cmd_completion nocaseglob nocasematch progcomp promptvars
> sourcepath xpg_echo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ex1
> 1   Ishtar:law/mail> cd _archive/re
> 2   Records/   record*
> 3   Ishtar:law/mail> cd _archive/rec<tab>
> 4   Records/   record 5   Ishtar:law/mail> cd _archive/record<tab>
> 6   Records/   record 7   Ishtar:law/mail> cd _archive/records<CR>   # add
> 's' & hit return
> 8   -bash: cd: _archive/records: Not a directory

> So why does Ex1 fail?  Could it be made to work w/o
> "fruity-side dishes"? (crazy/wacky side effects)  :-)

I can't reproduce this; I think you'd probably get different results if
you turned off programmable completion.


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