[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#481244: bash-completion: "tar" completion fooled on directory named "tgz"
David Paleino
d.paleino at gmail.com
Fri May 16 21:35:38 UTC 2008
tags 481244 confirmed
thanks
Hi Hervé,
On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:44:31 +0200, Hervé Cauwelier wrote:
> We use a directory named "tgz" containing archives. One school suffix
> their archives with ".tar.gz" while the other one suffix them with
> ".tgz".
>
> I've just discovered that bash is unable to complete on "tgz/*.tar.gz".
>
> A test case to reproduce it:
> [..]
>
> bash-completion will autocomplete foobar.tgz, ignoring the other one.
>
> Rename the directory "tgz" into "blah", redo the test and
> bash-completion will autocomplete up to "tgz/foobar.t". Another <TAB>
> and it is now proposing the two choices.
I can confirm this bug.
Thanks for your report, we'll work on this.
Kindly,
David
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