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Re: bash tab variable expansion question?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bash tab variable expansion question? |
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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:10:49 -0400 |
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On 10/17/11 3:07 PM, Michael Kalisz wrote:
> Hi Chet,
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> The shopt "direxpand" feature works as advertised (Thanks!) except that I
> noticed it seems to break the name-completion of executables which are not
> in you path.
Yes, it expands the directory name. In this case, it expands `.' to $PWD,
and the differing prefixes make the names not match. I'll have to see
what I can do about that. It might be a nasty fix, since the same function
has to make sure that `.' does expand to $PWD to honor the shell's logical
view of the file system. I'm not sure what negative consequences dropping
that rewrite might bring.
Chet
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