[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][311397] DBTS 267060: completion error commands/directories conflict

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Bugs item #311397, was opened at 30/01/2009 09:54
Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: David Paleino (hanska-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: DBTS 267060: completion error commands/directories conflict 
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: Debian BTS
Original bug number: 267060


Initial Comment:
From: Grahame <grahame at regress.homelinux.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: bash: completion error commands/directories conflict
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:25:57 +0100

Package: bash
Version: 3.0-5
Severity: normal

if you have a directory that is the same name as a system command then the
directory will be completed when tab is pressed and not the command.

For example I have mutella installed and I also have a directory called
mutella in my home directory.

Now if I type mutel and then press tab (whilst in my home directory) bash
completes it to mutella/ and when return is then pressed bash complains:

-bash: mutella/: is a directory


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>Comment By: David Paleino (hanska-guest)
Date: 30/01/2009 09:55

Message:
From: Matthias Klose <doko at cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: Grahame <grahame at regress.homelinux.org>, 267060 at bugs.debian.org
Cc: chet at po.cwru.edu
Subject: Re: Bug#267060: bash: completion error commands/directories conflict
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:55:43 +0200

Grahame writes:
> if you have a directory that is the same name as a system command then the
> directory will be completed when tab is pressed and not the command.
> 
> For example I have mutella installed and I also have a directory called
> mutella in my home directory.
> 
> Now if I type mutel and then press tab (whilst in my home directory) bash
> completes it to mutella/ and when return is then pressed bash complains:
> 
> -bash: mutella/: is a directory

you could set mark-directories off in your .inputrc. AFAIK there is no
way to tell which of the two choices takes precedence.

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