[Bash-completion-devel] GNU tar completion

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Monday 03 of November 2014 14:23:22 Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> On Thursday 17 of April 2014 15:57:11 Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > +# Everything is parsed from `tar --help` output
> > 
> > Have you tested this with tar implementations that don't do --help
> > and/or output something very different for it than GNU tar, for example
> > the Solaris and BSD tars? What's the expected outcome with them? Even
> > though the completion file says "for GNU tar", in practice it is being
> > used with other tars as well.
> 
> I tried to rework the patch to not rush non-GNU tar users, for such tars
> the _posix_tar completion is used.  It would be so nice if that could
> become in upcoming bash-completion release :).

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