Re: tab completing `/ cause weird errors messages.

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/25/22 8:27 PM, Emanuele Torre wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS: -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt
> -DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin'
> -DSTANDARD_UTILS_PATH='/usr/bin' -DSYS_BASHRC='/etc/bash.bashrc'
> -DSYS_BASH_LOGOUT='/etc/bash.bash_logout'
> -DNON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS
> uname output: Linux t420 5.15.48-1-lts #1 SMP Thu, 16 Jun 2022
> 13:32:35 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 5.1
> Patch Level: 16
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>      Tab completing `/ (backtick-slash) causes bash to print lots of
>      weird error messages.

Thanks for the report. It's trying to find the end of the directory name to
see whether or not to append a slash. You can use $(/ instead, which
behaves the way you want.

Chet

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